Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa63f0bc58ef45cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 74d5f23d657f762668200836446fbcd8 SHA-1: 7e1d4d435d7423eec2e68579caaf990fcd7069e7 SHA-256: fa63f0bc58ef45cc3ffc06908c7661281a0bfd73b6815c11a6d809c26b1a0c09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and trojan activity. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a redirection mechanism for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electromagnetic+spectrum+from+lowest+to+highest+frequency PDF link annotation
    • http://webspace.mysdam.net/images/newsletter/files/32372844044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/11511198482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/galowafabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130edb8703ef---73235310623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63004214907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/watigulelewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38578527683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210917202906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/xujuporogepegusubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/52889668126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araratmebel.ru/img/file/bibusojilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/teligarerogeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/35415474416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75081247465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/51340649275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsap.com/file_media/file_image/file/20972597847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venus-forever.com/image/files/31333593671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/fizoxegomotejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/delukuketago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea1532ecc6---14204411071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/21590079362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308fcfd808e---mumorenapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a5a390960---dugupufasipuvatefapowubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348b55d6940---mefawajugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d34b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34B 11356 bytes
SHA-256: be45320852f502788195cd8f18cab67fa8803ecbc56eba83bc16f13d211fed5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9B 18740 bytes
SHA-256: b8312186a496ee652885b61fe28d027f106501c07289bac89886bcdba8535fb2
font_02_sfnt_off00011eab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1