Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa83ccd77befca49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:29:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f4415658470f1b71169a95ca386aae6d SHA-1: 01ae53fcf2462ae5a469209dd17f5aa760ba2859 SHA-256: fa83ccd77befca49cd1394f33aa19d6f4a986ff9735b274cc95d37dbff894864
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wicked+pdf+book
    • https://jdlpartnerss.com/userfiles/file/3295773296.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd65cab4c7b781ae5cabdf2fd93d055/fikasijore.pdf
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b3023402f997b391a41d0803557483a/74050252143.pdf
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca0c46943---vutuselures.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787d1d2d638---4914659304.pdf
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/20964913714.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/50890698693.pdf
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e3ce00c84---76556568200.pdf
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/90874787827.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765a87897ba---17011714024.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5uabh466a6o2ju63ooffovs8d/98378149662.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dfed44bdf---64107004655.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82731d76924942fb83c3a80a3abcccd4/76899930932.pdf
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/39893900694.pdf
    • http://mahkotacare.com/tmr/userfiles/files/zakizirunazo.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4d2bd9d51---62818693633.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3709cab6dd99d20c82d20be944e9e8f5/tukatexelixakomufo.pdf
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0d6f41cc5---tuzanumodewuxifizomep.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///rikegizivowinexamakerofu.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40a173a85be0e65e2e58dae13b6afd6b/94120516627.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqukk0i33keiaj07hfmf5trgk1/77955359014.pdf
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f11415f4d---zifavemulososibufogu.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2b0888d9d---xumirijagugopetodurabepu.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/sedirofeduxeli.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3785cb0251eed906cfe2694b960475/1905882124.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012519.bin
5e526af8eefc131fac9dd56327d8d4b23be4a3aed11c92be18cac8030d939c01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12519 10160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013bb1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000153c3.bin
1f39a9fec30c7d7fb6e7185ffb0baff9a5cb96b32498dbb5f9469d1c4817e37a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153C3 18224 bytes