Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa88f2197c7a7124…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:33:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 91b74deafaabbe1d3e4545c5325b49f6 SHA-1: 7209a35fa41a2c65f737d9e2ad55c1e0de94faf7 SHA-256: fa88f2197c7a7124b8dbb615598619ebcf0a600281ecf3df5871c701ceb99cab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegaviju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/lorijovokegizogumujevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/visepofejewujetarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/12725332923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/74205469334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/ponewona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/959a2326b966ccba21833f73692c1eef/segomaleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/73481100129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/81976680799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/34034994226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161481295d248f---65650810979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/nolexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/9657695334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/47904920211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo918s0e2cn7cftcfft24jsnqc/95285251447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/sepujajubiset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/bofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/55440085666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477eb99cf33---14362361598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/67218748021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/luveziboxinifufuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/150925070761318d2c5c301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esofagopisa.it/userfiles/file/21675449052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=justice+league+dark+apokolips+war+watch+free+onlinePDF 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_off0000e34d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB64 11168 bytes
SHA-256: d17ffe4684ef2616ffd86c36af08980db8bc4809ce0c6da630a4f48fed0daabf
font_02_sfnt_off00011551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11551 18188 bytes
SHA-256: be5901bbc63d353acc2784e32099be759c4783fd5932a1ef68fca9e75b625f77