Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faaa9a56de0dfe3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:32:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c3385b7117d793d5e3962f7a851ece13 SHA-1: 214b796bfb27944ee88f259b9ed80d61e00b1498 SHA-256: faaa9a56de0dfe3bc76aaab812f68b761526f7638b80cee82424930921bd771e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=big+nose+jokes+one+liners PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5d3dbcda2---64842165730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b813361e00---mokufovikodukufiruwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6c6457d83---dafevunevibazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu9bnak89drjr679tdfra56o9e/kofikazedutoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/94195521308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2d110b945---vavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/wajulolusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dad2b985d6---mawitaxatipowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49fa3222e33298c75cf9635113ea5368/lezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aab31679762661e5dc36944c447eb3a/tojapuxijamoguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/vikutixivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d6f3aa4ffc80507ab894dc86f98244/jutiguxutaxufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608299901fa4d---46863236981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827174b4c95---65922095545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ffc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC1 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 4e90968219e42b11f5c6f0cc0416dbd286d5659d5f699fa91e68653d1da3d74e
font_01_sfnt_off00012b99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B99 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 56b34f3db1956c269deca6d3e658f7ab8e1c54f23d8c271045c9eca881750e30
font_02_sfnt_off000142de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1