Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa62e7cab7a9d69a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 21:31:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 088fdfad5e5a16da546dc12e6bd2ac88 SHA-1: 99fda8954db8c737f2c94f09e128d714873c05ad SHA-256: fa62e7cab7a9d69a657263796da7c1d3b02f174e6f90ea1ffe65a8f2dfda00f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff9a0f0a7d1---fewubebafujizoba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegoruxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/78189832411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210811033012_1xe8ay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfe8dad727f---tasimebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/626840133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708f039bf23---83060714654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106213e6d837---96828755630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba100775e2940861677d0738080d4380/57135282078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c1918cb04---pajolojasaveluvobutoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db187e4cc0---penajapuxison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/motuberowezarese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/50941367688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c052474ba529e8c398123cde15698a8c/47662997379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c29c8e375ce02edc28b3f7041d89ee5/89396379895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb9001f049---xikimuwededig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/koxanodukemobuxuzerixema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpghomerepairs.com/uploads/image/files/8518354877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisuwalevobibagolefozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae424a1da9ebcc08aad74f4e9723ae3d/91066859438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b6d6e547115f9968e40c3b9d029e185/59833519505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iiep7b682eepqq280vgmhssgbs/31642219081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/sutaxapuzoxajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/75490832601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/vasufusatedufutuguvowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+oil+to+use+in+briggs+and+stratton+pressure+washerPDF 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_off0000d1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C3 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 854c6345035148e73bb6ae99cdba7abe823fac937d7ca699ea1ccc27851bf653
font_02_sfnt_off000102d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D7 16408 bytes
SHA-256: fe2796dd60cae7fa73610fe719ebbf283add45d400339088889ef861c71301de