Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa7b3386f345d559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 17:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 76c4b27acf6d7c2a8a12fdc96b08c9ea SHA-1: 00b21caa323ea87dbd2dbf41b2b9c505f1a34a62 SHA-256: fa7b3386f345d5593a8a8902d5f43763c25527f274c4ffa386d32267e823fcaf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains. Heuristics indicate this PDF is a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c306751f92d---wadosexosarimup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/lafabubabawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/zusuvova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaf50564f9---18163605832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b876e1b479---44313290276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/lopuguluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui771hi5tad5udqg3a5mt5gq7k/93302397133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210601052339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/murem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/66210902185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/bubifutomeduvesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiwomugawijipiwikuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5913dc0b1c06dbe55cd607ffd8daa6/29012802619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/ramejoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/rarumipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/71475907686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb443a0b326---zokuwazezazedejixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf1d0e712e---16039294708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbd41c6e81---63730445725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/gozuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/73239091386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/topamufemidojowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/92919083778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=modals+of+obligation+grammar+pdfPDF 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_off0000ec14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001042b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042B 10840 bytes
SHA-256: f90accd80df33727f2ace4fa1361924023f36eb9dad0f2157e22da6f800f1ca0
font_02_sfnt_off00011cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAC 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 3d3deabde3f99b9c881fcbc1200699a616381683c5c2d7565d90994b9bc00927