Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa8dac9fc27a6fb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 07:35:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5f9bfe1de87797af3c8b3d05a47e461a SHA-1: a1550c36bcf424700930a4f4dc876bf3b2ea2dc2 SHA-256: fa8dac9fc27a6fb173886e42506e0cdfee913135fd43146215a2c270b259ed54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/75162076661.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/82835930920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/2786531103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20072594752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/48008923210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/rabufasefokalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7889dfaa6---feforojavenavujupisega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebrinteractive.com/userfiles/file/62240764921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/80364798006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oldd.adventurenetbg.com/userfiles/file/30402285010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wacommerce.net/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64908391062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/60471072631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0is4hk04ru0sa8fmnikoqvsae1/betojaxelorosimopuximomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijieet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79172846212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/84640347775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327e791269a---88281977310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/49049669349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/22591354598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=word+legend+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000cb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB0A 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 937309e90a48254b2068e98f3f9ddbe1dfef1ac05b1d8a2b672a23b6f6b2f4ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e27e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27E 23828 bytes
SHA-256: 6cc387d5d525d553eba1286442869f8001ea13d727f345f63cdff2b7b2e5c019
font_02_sfnt_off00011fdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1