Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa90be7379991c8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:31:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1c6bb86c4f87ea5f775d800080c18a55 SHA-1: e060b6d06e70bccfa52127867715431699e9a896 SHA-256: fa90be7379991c8d6e868dd3954b96de117feb3165cd7a66a3345d5d62467fe5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate a likely attempt to deliver a phishing lure or download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=barrios+la+catedral+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac7d0ceb60---18481159181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5b9479d5---37814390316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c69648dc92205399ec80677cd9a9db/dakikolonukewatakaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca05b6151---famusixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/67202804751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motixubugosolimemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/wadotosefoseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/48980533875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/ralabonenelurazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b058faa7e2299d394b6d290eb8cf53/warabujisavinuzakorumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redfordunion70.com/clients/869360/File/niwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b80fdd39990c0b39c97f1aff7307ea/gebutesavetigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/29459436214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///20215296355455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607496969c896---28295001744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9tefc0d2o3skns0gt2boucau9/kikukipinuxadawubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8phahs3j0u9pbidckpfd3cue78/silipasulekagolewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/zekoparalexofonexabises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo0hj951joe48l0cg71eh8snf1/nixexusevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/lifumokiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ff5dd4bc8296c1a31fc13553f02204/34093285167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45044d26852b32dcaad97883c85cd126/23185399418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/64132366746.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://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_off0000e538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE538 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4F 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 9cb1efdbcb55b0fe10c50f76ef55e71f841d98a8a39b9f0ed3f71a2c6ecfeb2c
font_02_sfnt_off00011586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11586 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 1363598edc570ae99ceff542f8459c730af5f120b94492313fbc5d2966cc9f26