Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa611d963b3165cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:34:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f69c897097890de47f320b1456018b61 SHA-1: b425905b43be3429a544684a41f7c6c539f13d99 SHA-256: fa611d963b3165cd19c33048ae154a889be8217c56af0a820e1045a87e522805
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the document's purpose is to manipulate search engine results or lead users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/wudivojovaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c23443a5b318394c526e11a069ddbb8/76027752885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/gososet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/48317554881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613325baaadf2---zaxovatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109131128126546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxokipiwowimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/88980197140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/tumofuwumukurada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/jekuxifejerufutuderere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130685c94290---tulutomubadumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210914024738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/nepaxopebokuligoxederi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivilisetutojekalalagabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pecsikult.hu/files/file/54495395751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunmoon-glory.com/web/upload/files/katumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/74570485701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/vazotumifapegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/lekesedifumepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanetumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=guyton+and+hall+south+asian+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD111 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE928 10836 bytes
SHA-256: fad89ad62a3808070d7d4b00ef34f65964ded2779d4858a799130ab969f424fd
font_02_sfnt_off00010231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10231 17500 bytes
SHA-256: cfe124b26e2edf7f6cb9b8d60e096162d1f62d405b6d8fae600e9c25d21bdbc4