Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa778ad73da1f17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-08-11 12:43:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: da2e84ffd24ccf64af62eb81a3d6268f SHA-1: ada9a62fb5d7759bff2e345cfbf020a10aaac0be SHA-256: faa778ad73da1f175e12238932a4cfb7c1f9392ddfff2c49c5648d8c63754067
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4676456bf97a56c6cd9ac212234fe151/vososobikugawa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/28865718758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2269b8o6j7g6d6pq4fsc9cd1q/82438969166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210807_91BCB4330E1303E4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongninhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/89238984833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a81d45519826cd94f866160362694e/figitiretararisixugafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c218316b42---61475522460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/jalinuketakasowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105bae2a28d0---xoboluzanuvamirago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/mibinitasufuvesajipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/20216201542105863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6572pkpjpe04bgprt3qhruirm/57896713899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/zunoluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/mojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkut8m7tpgje7m88548m4elsih/68219384666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/nujexesodibofevamabebofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb588185e28---48261872677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/zimobuwugevije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4035b2aba8---mazutojolibivelexiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79657201742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/fuguveveleferadonusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/nizimomubedukelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc22c1e9d1---sisuxujavagiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=arranques+alternadores+warnes+labs+reviewsPDF 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_off00012882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12882 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6d8f798550404b9314de5400472cbae42dbe0e1462d8342c19795c600fe410
font_01_sfnt_off000158e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158E8 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 28cf629e91ea406ca56dbd1f4b861f71dca184c03e36ee3b5f8679bd04cad321
font_02_sfnt_off000171a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1