Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa7981d2d00568a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 44b898f645db0cffb64776c4b4e447b3 SHA-1: a1dd5368fe7e1ac9c28997b38d9f594f2369fcb8 SHA-256: fa7981d2d00568a8b54eb09c0e39afc407e20e6fa0e6a5b41fd5bd1259a9f693
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sistema+digest%C3%B3rio+fisiologia+humana+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d7a63c0e---13367254730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///63565762756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/vipilavudepolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d253e2fac6ca829c5bb277fcc7fd077d/53780670487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/58394553743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/78139369019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5092205c9---wegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/48112991370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/95827998286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/jevasoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/96858169163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/67606401464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/wojijufopexipasawipago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaan121.com/uploads/files/202109021131252120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabjkhbzbqti4a3apfmdd2s4b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74742131294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/41979350389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/purafumixipibebawumebalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/58361586592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/kijesusosixosejibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/46210515943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c45f66c5197c3cdad661e194c67dc3f8/winozojejorib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_DF7995F9D2C0DDD8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39969799112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a78f0993766e97e1a84a62866425d89/61155347479.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_off0000db18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB18 20504 bytes
SHA-256: 215da69a16599f37d1638af313e3541548bc0f04cd23fb6881be1e69a366f73e
font_01_sfnt_off00010e07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001261e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261E 11260 bytes
SHA-256: ea9d92f6482c1865055a3cf3b6dedb36a18ce018850ff0eb29299a6d27652986