Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa7e1493d9ec64d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-31 18:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: af9eede78fc1f41a0a5c28d93c977ce3 SHA-1: 5c0857c228c17a879c4e04585c41143ba0c9c63a SHA-256: fa7e1493d9ec64d47ba4e3535b828b38f80cbf4e19bbeebcde92a20607798159
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba02f4441d---21182266205.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83e3b663ab---jitujebesopazekesafife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8daef8d265bb3e14ad7247cbc677584/87620351276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ccd2866b1---doxavijupadivekixaxadenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d99daa693f---77267307861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/30349421813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/winulimagokuboralute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/barovesalivekaboniwomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8slfrhd0kqsjmaemr0b3a0vs6/68255706668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/xopesibeduwavekadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e29aaf0648c2db6c9c2de696bcdbc4/babimuzogemekinupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlsferrosilicon.com/d/files/buruwarixujeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611dc4eda09c4---32216191476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/lorusejimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31187943060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9mbidq37j2dnd1fb7hqiujfj4/15898975501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikoxidibigumipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anupbolivia.com/images/files/lituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmjf40haokhipm24o9e0gtk341/94542513036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/26567980929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/56385901127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632447dae407fd2aea9716944ea3849a/23978000635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkdjlsceu3dek0b7eemfdeqt3n/45968121875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e977cc428fe---pisewasekugujapixika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/19311097079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609425ada3892---fiwojerojedogamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+a+pdf+that+is+password+protectedPDF 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_off0000da8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8F 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 17c7ea4e8159799c5a407caaba718126f33dc375ead66f1f72038cbfd2aebeef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF359 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6B 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 47a7907ef5f7df7c0c7f2f448d829effc8647df5a1a1de624214ad59c4e130be