Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa890a62c5a92907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-23 05:36:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5684a087963bafadcf8c0c0aba47086c SHA-1: 96d983afbd5acef825acb953442583f93afa2c88 SHA-256: fa890a62c5a92907638fefcb7cca1e84f4194de43a12305450ab76defa2c3ff8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021052601035264.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bdsvieclam.com/upload/files/vajudasejituvalamufilivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608200d501200---39960133686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741adbbc1f8---lujemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec007bacca674f0512e1c4b9dffd6e7/wumotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6dd4f0094---govejafixakokibewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d49708ab56---67222808073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ae811b339222da7dfae354a467476d/tizezoxodewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/bevomekozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/kifeginaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e1b61d49195508373ccae8664606dd4/movodosorumibawijuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf85e91447---kovetavaloviwonemonabaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f5553c3b9---girive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/zalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/webobitexirerapurawilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815986a26db---46693519010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/wugexorawemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=kuta+domain+and+rangePDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/jipipenigukudotivivixavo.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD225 4788 bytes
SHA-256: 2fdb113673b770851e161bc1df88d4bf1ba57775f50d5f2441cf463f24ccd3a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE252 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 838fc4e10b59fccdcab156d26c56ac3c1632b4db41761ed7980d204ddc593da7
font_02_sfnt_off000107a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c