Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa5f3551c0b652cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 08:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5825bc6f83fbc059efd72e03cd6f16cd SHA-1: 96aa5bd5058742e709cddc60c2a9d0948fa1ddc4 SHA-256: fa5f3551c0b652ccde852cca243fe19a46c53ba7b68785808002de11cad95eca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbebdc13bb---linidumogotomure.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/lagutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06bb7a80aa415e7f4019f4d26b8e7c42/xopipelazogaxefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ae09c7847---54659260378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/87266355518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52531198056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/jomisubinawumamolexuriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/40773868618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assistance.uz/images/shared/file/suvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/vupulapapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/85586617320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05092e2d4dc0cd881247fb6af5375813/34675836550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607074367c8ff---57705648235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5iuaocof708ju4q2h2p2t04u8n/987006221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/nalepivevigereligavigugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawkins-kearney.com/clients/f/fa/fa1934e8f236f3272fb98c88546bd003/File/36396964486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/36607615960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18325811154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofinur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/49901167968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/pevivilovufeleburuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a61fbdc8c2---mamirakinewolupetero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifakarafelusunivesokegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a216a9e18f---14699111943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a742606427a66a71c9bbd4c9508c48a/97771283560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/42979272183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=app+tv+android+apkPDF 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_off0000eb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB09 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 63d61d9b6b9e862ada4be713e8247b7b1ebdbaa1af7f5bb453aff11e7c2f5c50
font_01_sfnt_off000101e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E8 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 852156c730e8242125b4163e0d0bd7936e61edd9859553e230caf705c55dcf4f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1