Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa984515e616025a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a21ef7b9a0b253099b56c6b3c4320085 SHA-1: 07d66b922b4bbfff5286fd3224173d410f5f898b SHA-256: fa984515e616025a31cb5d49490bf2d32a468627e99efb13a3abe22d176ea970
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains identified as disposable or potentially compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejetosaruf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///rudefekarifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a68295344a17e99b45615ac9859ed26/44357843417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/jaruzafiferibefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091322484866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c70b25b4a4---sofofofapopinobirasigopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614117c6c52c2---21036144718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8aa0ea6f2---vebiwowufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/45289302670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/ponamexufeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/52365375314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukodiwovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/56263442934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibt9l3ni7nsbp6puglaod82pba/simiwonuruxozodubadazege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48aaf7a18a4e140a599cfd208e335cc9/pusemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/bavadasuguxisiropefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/tixatoroxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/bukadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/84917886054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109130252011592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52257551b62815e0a4a72806fcee46c/82750250283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/98123922511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui5otu0hm7vsl72t92c3pc08u3/fumazirewupezurulewunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/gozivozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=4+std+maths+textbookPDF 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_off0000b5e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5E2 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 66edda4d4c7a585214bb568fcff78e5cbe841132aa1ee60691746c385d9dd36a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC5 15732 bytes
SHA-256: efdca05a58828c2f1855c9a9115d842567628fc68c8ee21958c8656b97e78166
font_02_sfnt_off0000f55a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1