Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa50634741a2ec37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f939bf819cd3f0063cb89d79aead686d SHA-1: 3e6ed3fc4b949fb0d42f421f5a64940c1b3f6d5d SHA-256: fa50634741a2ec37fc5a6f0c5d7bce672eb62579c50a4c71755a10f5e37405bd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document's purpose is to create a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware via the linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/60320918655.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/tegeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/kifeveranemoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/18894194244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cc85a1498a09263739032389e93092/10099994766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd41578632---vojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/nubivoladejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/24800359068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slr-eyewear.com/slr/userfiles/20210913174205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/44636220100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gameadvisers.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/japan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79409111105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b25045d4c---mezewosopajelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/73775720818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saeronbio.com/userData/board/file/zobudulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/rejiwisiworiguradidofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/kufiwowobepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/ruletugojari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanouklid.cz/upload/file/16741948647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/dedekeviselavigibadujenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/84155198545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/jidawovibuveladered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/21121062346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72662825908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csam-villepinte.org/uploads/images/file/zizogapuzixudusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=memory+unit+of+computer+systemPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE3 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 02645146fae3930f8a0e4fd82a03ffefad1ba35b693d2a583bc129c71e078344
font_01_sfnt_off00013645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13645 18848 bytes
SHA-256: c9b81284e02ce6dac9037fbb71e8a760d27364678127d1c5b9a2c59f5b9aacaf
font_02_sfnt_off000167ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1