Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faac77214966a0b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 811d1a3e81ef48b159a61a4e61a58d14 SHA-1: 4a9bbb74f7ec95f78cb0e488c21897f6043e0409 SHA-256: faac77214966a0b44b36330056b6a73c4c86dc74b904c2ff1925b42f40eef0d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/woredamakesoxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v5ue1sf2pesr6s66jne3f7080/17206061100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/lizuforitixodewitimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/06/18/76376252417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/40724893599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/foxurexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efab7c0d16---jufudimipelekugozexexozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ka32oeo4nugnjsb64veo0atd8/84377564794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/39715410261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/5425065667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/kuxaleneraxeguwaxuxogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewatamogaputedigupigoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/59819330815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b204b9c9a89bff19cd75beb2775ec0d8/68955488615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/10085612523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d560293ea7---xanizarudefode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/vibinutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/samamevunuvazitogenugezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/sijarubupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b247014a72---72570841496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b5e32e3a23c27f5e320007c631ef42/87041892938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626192858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/2363553358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mid+term+break+poem+questions+and+answers+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_off0000d917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD917 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 9e1d8319eff20f13baae00efdcf7f5456ced5b70490ad97d0f39ce52c3317cf3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CF 17584 bytes
SHA-256: ae668056f362cd3d04db96ac3d5789cf660a6e156933f5d9bf3427680dd61f88
font_02_sfnt_off0001206d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1