Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa51b54d371db763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9a90563500415c3b9198704c8da9ea30 SHA-1: 102765e4a3f2308a62849b51571bb117e659465e SHA-256: fa51b54d371db7636a31cfe51649c036159d77116e4f670265fa4c02e91f7027
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/16428775739.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipurewikeruwefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcb14ebbd0---wukimakuxenalanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smitheaster.org/clients/861344/File/xobepipugaxixemukanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/26491479833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/vodosaviwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kutubovidalodaberebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knupress.com/pds/editor/file/mapujigobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/18888561727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm5a6674hg4apu0ofesfidgibj/4266644922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/16582689795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.info/userfiles/file/60010424127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161005e10a8dde---28673362795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845e74ed33---18228691463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9db062964a---81600117667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1756f7ffcae92e49bd928acfa86ee0a/78992114353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/52707934667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3rc5v67fqisabne7h9jinnecq/41304625978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5499602631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/27165339792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/dezesasujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe89fea579---furuzitovepemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/84499624501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbafjvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rozadazuvijijuresopakeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/82966839556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+unbecoming+of+mara+dyer+pdf+englishPDF 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_off0000d251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA68 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 38e85ef3fa2c03e2de7e25bb66dcd7a0148feb8c2e75d022cc03bd1f0f25afb6
font_02_sfnt_off0001043b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043B 17532 bytes
SHA-256: db001cac3fbe281efee1dea7c9787a09acbb93d642e686f52811be92826ae0f4