Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa87c196c7c04a30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:11:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 81628af76317f4024157a92aa8c027e2 SHA-1: f8f03a02b676698b2f8bf46cb823cc409fc8d148 SHA-256: fa87c196c7c04a30a693509863c7a894eca0700960cf0b4b28b491ea2c195034
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://alltechsro.cz/files/simigopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946cb0320f2e470afc9a8b0eafba35ef/damisasefofufuribudufumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5p5caium2ebujov0gnrl5hoq3/79864691214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/dexapobupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flour.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceg2c0n285vgm78kjpu3jsk6l9/85510106482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc6f0b5c16---tobinegutadeluluzenomure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k30l7no5h4nq62qbjr2ehrbjsb/bojiwuporinojejoxiroteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/wupekajoruzobowonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc7c27f3697---37758468518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45b9a6fdcf---63972431515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/74998015150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///puxidunavizise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d13bdc88e---47664040957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/zifepilafalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56789258655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/40754756515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cegled.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/fugijowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/68535575243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/44661276597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xoludoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/41515500850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34169825940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e96d50414a---84095562544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/10527370675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=nefrologia+al+dia+libro+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_off0000da27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23E 10420 bytes
SHA-256: d2a5b1de77b49445003762bbba52c3f001d00be4912cb1c3a905aeed039c796c
font_02_sfnt_off00010976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10976 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 4f998d2db960e8b2771db4e5a8429ab28f219b2ea652532445a274ecb849a656