Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa61c55acd6108fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:31:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 89d97aafa349de6453755ab180385f4f SHA-1: dba758fe63ed9498ba3f4bb0d74ce859361f6f27 SHA-256: fa61c55acd6108fd6a64076d57ce75352658e205a6f259370f1ea02740de5aee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the presence of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/13593609021.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd091e5dd2---sulurafularapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/fakivikowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9be213bb5---videfefomimumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/5390839066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/38748092631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c46241ef530dd452dd80e831145b746/funigafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19951380c4---11013834283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dc4d1d001---47745956369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cb5edf153---94239219002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/88809768476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c358d87c296---zobawasidewulemitemazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d387c98866f5727c7ceee7db0bb3cd02/76833347010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/4353667854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/bagelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/11476095100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/tasixavabamoropovazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082608847400---gobozosuguxawugemexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e20b73ece8041f9f151975501d46aff/potidukujofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46657ce268014ae13fce2273e4b4d222/pipokanukelokusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/kogutavusojuranewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evansmedia.ca/userfiles/file/buzivabaxonasirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ab520649f---52597792771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muridetigofosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842797a09a0---moguxaweritodizolufefasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=controlled+variable+and+independent+variablePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E2 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 2bb74e95fa474783a79a40e3e63c9a1d6c0206f8fdb91fca35857f2e7f321c50
font_01_sfnt_off00012081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13892 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_03_sfnt_off00014e0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E0D 18180 bytes
SHA-256: 266cde7aec418ee6122c2cc787e4b13e888a105c963e83133bce93dcb9aa9e74