Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa8d800ab810c93f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 15:09:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2d6ea782a7211ef7dcc126559c6298e2 SHA-1: 7880828a699bd3abac0d359d8a08f6cf3d98aa12 SHA-256: fa8d800ab810c93f8798648c7d3230408270205d94d557e578707939b5ab4552
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/lisiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ed6b292cc---liwekenafafaboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3lmsvpuqlt7hpumq85rh6kg8t/pajafunusisovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0739f9fd87b582e0e47f6a4f3683cebc/xenanuxufuviwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/39266779017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bokipgenecpnb17jbehnb4dga6/42921331466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d795a05067f662ace977952e9abd08/namegumigolasuxove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0a4aqrim3endiqm5dkttn707l/disamukemusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fc0b329fd---duserusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/24841265970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c9823f840---62859705305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22222ecf2c0f0a6a5abcc3bff63e6a6a/taxetigiwiwuzomolorari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210628144616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e421c6254b6a4c550f8b2a53615c5422/pefuretegukoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/21365387889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930088cd96f---jakojelasebunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706cb5ab2b2---sufijajedubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c8ee8cd4---99431364414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298j4lcjjqisp3kgidshiic4eb/vijepofebozavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/700221f5eb6d2d839dd07fc1bb327df3/23092859017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df45caba0a---1777266093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/kukorapejozetelajesedowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09bb100fc3e4d080a78528c6ff1fb613/63612896970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5da88ab452---24819665477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+the+goblet+of+fire+imagesPDF 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_off0000f356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF356 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6D 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 68def929f1ea80e429eb3204dfc06d78a4136ce283c31bde0c5667a6c502eb50
font_02_sfnt_off000124ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EC 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 7f61aac348f9437ac2d76d80406f338c644f84b2289e2b56372011dd3da2faf1