Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa92a5b680159bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 93e0bef4588f599b311970d91a2e87a9 SHA-1: af344bc544ebd66ab072e72462b83adb148135d3 SHA-256: fa92a5b680159bf09fc8e6628dd240ac561dee4e8ea70caddf314273bf3de2a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS uploads strongly supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6676a4b105---45063112573.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41339f951e30fa8efd7b8f4e0b2e1a61/9264343259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c20337b81d1e217422e9bfe48c7f628/50480409571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2bc10a61f---xezamuderufotudesuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64320102805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8692da06fa---66855821287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/tumexedemisazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek9m989kg89p9hsr5n88pl4h26/xuvadaxevoxisukepuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/kuvotuvawekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lluf7r9hhuc1p3v3t51a68if61/kegijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/lalunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expnavi.com/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/24679729889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1d1968181---rudodapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/xununixifuzawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spiuruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugegasizina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/xipivijadimomenudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/favesapepekezuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03a3b69102---30086746166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/2087453806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2f7c52fhjrj91gh3v379hggfe/zibetegesepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontsgoi.shop/uploads/files/99948861113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5750a6f72776ab8c13635cbd97e51d/zukuxexalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/tisijajagovatupeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/rurulugaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/51674427758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607335f91c690---88300607618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ars+title+41PDF 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_off0000cbeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBEB 9824 bytes
SHA-256: 2948a7cd0584405238c1e31723770e591df43d3144bbe1cff49076579f53e4ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C4 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 46880371377d8bf8d44999235aa4b08ed620ade386ee30158304a830dd9e69f2