Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa7d6a63c37c905a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab1033bf0896d9668c8065d24c6248ca SHA-1: 988cffbce8711c29d9f5e879aa9901cb785a773a SHA-256: fa7d6a63c37c905a035789517a43baf47bbdd2de45f502c87f67fa4f9d0b95ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to disposable hosting domains, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://ienter.bg/files/63958720081.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/49040383622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/pafeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b9b733a19---sivaverepuviralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fed1caaf1---72330444131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/76448676964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca95fe7a69827d102d696e70d1568699/75508654845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1891dcddbd---xifipevotuduneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l4cqaeq2nsbcouev7c57u0ad7/nefupizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bufpjf85hoj9ojoloecc694c7k/76075366865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/52918370190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b55c6bc6c---mijafejivilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160952cf064ba5---94747514640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbbd764a4b---piratafavumafuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c98d31ce8056c253dd189fb0b00619/34596601337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e3e1427f6---23942201064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8625baeea0---zagurukeposumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f56a2ab0b1bfd6f8bb3efda83fe9bb/27161556878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limitlessillusion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5878a3bd30a7dc163adae83a296a7b07/97326401404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/giwaxugamukufiduwefuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulanenumaduponobuvanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/39325293399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608221f5a2a6a---fepevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=male+female+height+weight+chartPDF 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_off0000f896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF896 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A8 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 01051cd2ced61820076a10eef08c754b3cd71fbfeff9245b5593d83b899522c7
font_02_sfnt_off00013c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5D 10468 bytes
SHA-256: b5e9630029cbabfca9e8b70743acf8d320053dd190a70f1e400b4857fe2f9e35