Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab58a9fce89fcae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ba71d71c97fbd65d50ae946d472c6346 SHA-1: 6f3df7a691abe902d74ab7ade775a094de910d46 SHA-256: fab58a9fce89fcae86182070c73ca0d262b42bd933e97a448824d4234e6b2f47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/52333973303.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61107917124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251ab13d59---tafobonega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqknajp1vn9bfucddmo1jgtso5/88377080640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proallprint.com/userfiles/files/fixatama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/volikukubofobukakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/xezuvonitisusorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/90192891568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/47619246778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/kemedifuwojejobanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiji.pgo.tw/pic/uploads/files/sirejarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/56983085296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup1.com/contents/files/81375978089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bcd793207---19774824135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkurrniaujcr46jh234l9mao27/gerolefafixusidebaperoxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izometal.net/mm/file/mufawopiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/lumawudixaboxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/181d251e135f3e32a7f24236fd373332/82304036518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/73015135055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/97891690678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/55200172350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faguaflowers.com/images/admin/file/3090637026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iqlacpro.vn/emotive/upload/files/77503415854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pes+2020+for+android+offlinePDF 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_off0000b9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9FA 17456 bytes
SHA-256: e6cfe54d5e1a9313093dddd6b29f641bc35b85a7f000684b8222da3a0adfb349
font_01_sfnt_off0000e718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE718 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2F 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 10e74ab8635870f1c51a73e94333bd48ffcc6db1d87920367d14dbabdf4232a0