Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa44061dfeec4c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 14:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: df7393f0e673fde64328a85f593181bd SHA-1: f1144449001d69da4660ba29e2e2678788322559 SHA-256: faa44061dfeec4c7079efd430e4788c3db4ddf5fe7072e2977960f4620976296
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on these compromised sites suggests a campaign focused on delivering malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4566e3bd13---ligavumatexuxatogegivaju.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/73299380574.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs79gbjqq7653r2bgqo1cnvhhg/lebisozufizub.pdf
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/kejefejufexek.pdf
    • https://dhesient.com/media/72710982079.pdf
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cee5d5d2c---76954520578.pdf
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///wewarozakinu.pdf
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/51849724708.pdf
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/5334700614.pdf
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772e9252bc6f6192be1a61f58d73ae7a/99298793590.pdf
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/61613799913.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95d0ebb4ca---latebidugusorawo.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d7bd762cf---julopufaxaxoxedadotemireb.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ab232e75a---xiwekedelatiri.pdf
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/kimobavokiguvet.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ees91m10tkk8egi96crch6s1e1/87563097715.pdf
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/51913773873.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609993181cd19---37039204634.pdf
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/88889854987.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=vergi+hukuku+mualla+%C3%B6ncel+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be46.bin
8e41b2c482a7f7cc7e8f9641dc6739719eb0d859942a6eb8961495c05e3cefc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE46 17952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9ED 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010204.bin
e8399e310d74adb1c8ac45f096511c119051ca162f4c6cd35494dbebe78fcb6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 11056 bytes