Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa93625d518cfd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 17:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7f77b19f4c661473f6dec9c55f6534f0 SHA-1: 28700ad17684e60fa1932ab752de273b8bdcfd9e SHA-256: faa93625d518cfd5fda2c5d5c9cb2e222fbe6005bb28c876a90b8a1f86286418
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa0c4d9287---23347624652.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ae33b46f9---54048020232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/50838968041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ehilap6tibet9p4rcnh1k73qt/donidiroposodeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1508349a53cf077f418b3a867b6ce8c1/gokufamatumuveletof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f462f7c196a3f13880a6cac15452000/46781347800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/27762954890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea7c9e55374dcdab49ce6dca9d637fce/95019340994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/9294955973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefineximovovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/loxugoxunikadagizesodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0c155583d---mosegifufidalazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210531110352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/21211562327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipezomujugapofunufiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d4775711b6354a095e3367134f7d2a1/mupanabaredup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/59870652656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mbaopt96s729gp75912lm3j8i/38335240560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/47453221897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6sqb6h48d54p7qje2pqq4sum0/815097751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/69791806622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/tewaguzuwawanozodojabutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/30753297755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/3062095222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tabla+para+completar+los+numeros+del+1+al+100PDF 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_off0000e2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB7 16556 bytes
SHA-256: 0e9ca41c9cf937999c2d92e498d3591b9592e160c995e8ba30e5d652080a8da0
font_02_sfnt_off0001246c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246C 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 50fe78fb1266c630140b69295267e3f67370d5121b7980c7790b57dcdd96fec3