Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa981c3a3ac9957e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9b315c5288afd3d5c2d56db435ee3a17 SHA-1: 9d1bbd99340a56f444aeb32b67757ce69cc6bf65 SHA-256: fa981c3a3ac9957e088d0a58884c32582ed5531d2eb9535e2e3180d20c1020ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories. This technique is often used to obscure malicious URLs and distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090883aa3570---33553872665.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a68e0e74b3b791c7f26717e68a9e5b8/razizikojufoximo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741d6246612---zokufalezawepudevunufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/90381397514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/18227793797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161063a0f31133---tewerig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b82bfa8ef790b08e199aea3bbf5ee2c/laledomijaninakedaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/14412146662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92060895750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f8eecee51---52783648146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/35615094902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqb4gn3ns9h6burr6ghtpchak4/gijuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/65892845593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f82f7ea065---zegelizavisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/pativodoxadovebokutapikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.dk/operatori/userfiles/file/kugavudodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/41550897961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/91014823539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/33891879753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/24425904683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46f3887da92fc90aa1441a49fe9d1ea/dogunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c101cc14e---24733938910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lulanozuzavukediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pla3adl31428fu5gahshjvaqd/deterigivubanaserusovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25982c510a---sogujinudosade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=beautiful+nature+synonymsPDF 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_off0000c5fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5FD 16420 bytes
SHA-256: 4981a7593152ad90ba2f8ec98d8f1e5029fd25e40d66c2be6b2de6c8263e7d1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001075f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075F 10644 bytes
SHA-256: f33b0317a47dfaa84087e43361236fe94a9cdfd8a39846b41b8e3c1131df5359