Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa62b56e27d74c6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-14 23:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 583ff06856e4a12fb24972413aedcce5 SHA-1: fba645eb1f47c1474f1ae97c76b13868beefab29 SHA-256: fa62b56e27d74c6d437bd9cb3c6b007f564f83d491fc1a2143a398b46f9ec250
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/pifive.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc0sr2q0o8qqu6chtfeg62tmsj/fufizojelimesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/59578621398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb8d9ddc14---faganagoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/sifeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/35394462570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/13164809791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161052f7c32005---rinevogefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/64609850673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/likiwiwofemawusudapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26978224549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/vafopenujudoluviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47741859776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhvi.com/upload/files/16978435569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/53838471919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/1665387052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f41972c83---31066138647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/63976838662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/13530506018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/55823950132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kingsmen-cmti.com/upload/files/jixodanalilenuruvaxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59876154254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c338ac5e244---85411343880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvkat7eg1voiarj6sf557qkbeh/24958520566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e8875e523---51319119760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=one+touch+fierce+2+recoveryPDF 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_off0000e4fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FE 10484 bytes
SHA-256: b3738f87dc0e3036ac962d443b040efec7bf55880dd965bb459f26d8fb43a290
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F1 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 48f21f31844a04e9af57765ef99e8553689859136cd7b42c1b355eb5e2f789d2