Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa9fa0a7d3aba392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ecc1da42582856549ae16828d6df9c48 SHA-1: 487a0e72abb8681e480f488bb15a95b9b10e2e10 SHA-256: fa9fa0a7d3aba3925d86d1c5a0f97122a3e35aef7d3adcb7c09763a4c91d7b6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites that appear to be part of a link farm or hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/putegib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/rukazotonaponatatexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/surepoxeremojuzubedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/83194501898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031b5cde59cae54cf2bff81af376baec/topopupevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhchenang.vn/webroot/img/files/topinoxopikaponarowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/vasifajusisobopomesuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/dupexerugamunizidaveriteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t76vpedatk0b46mojp33r9j6f2/vexivakifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/66045243067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d11d89a0286f2f2180d199ecb09c177/zitegefavupadukiwuvewero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/panulelugeguvemetowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monebefojukovegumekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/jezenalokonumego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ee65982f9458154e631b1a6ebbb064/83200369920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/16494520997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8cf278371---23162103334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91419896578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/45169007745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8nmc6h3uvui0fesbkhvtsrgbi/61045090680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/35618356335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50794746157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/64656090130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f75a94c73a1e50725936ea76f3fd58c/36673774943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/budul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/sinozedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=here+without+you+tab+pdfPDF 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_off0000eb7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7B 18432 bytes
SHA-256: bdfa19881ade580e244bada549a4ab7c2763fb89ddbdae68034fcf54e922f6b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13305 10708 bytes
SHA-256: dbff1272e44debbe3af8da06b1abde712ee4d4a83008bdd2543b254c4a210948