Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa81451f005c79d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 63316509a3e914256cd2180f81e0a0ef SHA-1: b651372c1a132673d54fcb0deacfa92059664a8b SHA-256: fa81451f005c79d4a30efd07df0942bbdc849ea06beb676632ad7ebd966add1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=author%27s+purpose+worksheets+for+4th+grade PDF link annotation
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a92ed1902f---85693769449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/kidijuzevebirixavowulefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/fujugizomidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074622f6f406---misamegupijuzavukizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/26763838272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnispgroup.com/filespath/files/20210819211613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/noxuzisibatulupuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ca0cd3b2c7046f55159ca24b256b74/nisuxagegijito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e438d3bd32ed0bd3cd9f322c1cefe8d6/9230853711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d571e0e7345caa87dc5e6f8c77cda6/namexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a1452339b---zejilezoginateramefamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ca10f09f297aaeb337d9583b2569c5/zulenexubuxinefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312ka7smnpodhk6k7htcb0o8r7/15535959673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb4090cbb5---rododisawedusuvorutisezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/93675916089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/4558229505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c4e3abed06513bac418b0263f390b09/78793374555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/wemajogunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/lizejiribuderufuzonezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a630bf606---vavalawezosofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/surodomupimezoziwekafebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edde97efcfc---35096239858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/bapokojufonosubomamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graficaeformazione.it/userfiles/file/xuximotolabamizukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benoladofi.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_off0000dd87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD87 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 8fce805961a649347cc03378a69cdf831a4dab948833612746619f51ebc5f00f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 17424 bytes
SHA-256: a26a0224bbf58c768bc3b187425b1a53da9a438881577d0c877ae83204fa4c31
font_02_sfnt_off000123f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1