Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa9f3874bcbeff67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-08-12 03:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: a8746d42ad0b8957c18a95cc6d58ec8c SHA-1: 502bc4c554c90e21b7976c3cb665b60fcc1e39d8 SHA-256: fa9f3874bcbeff6705ba5c029b81003f83f15b31ea3f7b184b0c01848fa786b8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs, including one to a potentially algorithmically generated URL, further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b7152d139---givobinukuxumewisotozoned.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a986eb4c8a---kulezewanisosasurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c925f21a---33332264768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896b21c2b58959150e551f3d21566193/14049346395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/27619104947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjbtv0lrag5mh9oa34bei2u7dh/riwuzoziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/93302012483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/rawiwopuvaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/bobefafita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/87551620368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgouejc1qggpmeq3k67m9ardc7/loferor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/banid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/90589786246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/20644601933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beccaro.it/userfiles/files/84019837902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egca.fr/userfiles/file/65102229813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/sovesoriluwakijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801e908dd19---71611912870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e33j07gc6stomdc95too9hppe4/80820915163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/40576221703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/wakozapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saintthomasmonrovia.org/clients/a/a7/a774d5b45fc75aba9c6fcf07501e1e58/File/64706049013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogugirafujekavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f40381fcf4f0f6af4183754d9a0f95/durolizeduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=calcular+la+molaridad+de+una+solucion+de+250+mlPDF 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_off00010d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001251c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251C 19516 bytes
SHA-256: 3f5fa7f3b66ed17f479ac56eefac1952e08809e5e7570a4ebfc7ce386912745d
font_02_sfnt_off0001584d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 28b9a329a5634ade32485b98593d0444c6c93535443eda78f17c9e0a75484795