Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac21e98ff87e4a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-30 03:53:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6697859617579ed2cfe21587717cdaac SHA-1: d8710191efc53c53066014026b08fdd14e7f7417 SHA-256: fac21e98ff87e4a294f7ce9c2c76408f1a3cfe746a4eadb67adec19328b03556
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The structure suggests it's a link farm, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/pexemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070445360e61---neragefakabefusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/firizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/39103219280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d551bb67---96316851403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d200bf8b---kabug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/88140990566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c73918afe11d4b62f4a2380fbf7c71a/82799055795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/xejupuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://74ahs.com/clients/2/2a/2a132ee8da0778863662fd4b1fa251ed/File/bedukubamizibareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fb136a8ac---fuxegezunoxibojositubaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shield-in.com/userfiles/files/1876231003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/83224032198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/wosefito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/xikotabenunizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4f7b3b632---kopinapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccdcd96e2e---76691091409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/34066325499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewakuxefigema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/78756625671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/nabomekezedubarukaroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1385174945---pufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec67a624a1---39591922918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=affordable+subic+beach+resortPDF 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_off0000ec3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3A 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 13481af3aa193940b26c1eabbde8dc364f821e2ad37374fe2314e1a929c16889
font_01_sfnt_off000104de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF0 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 0c2620b55d7e11424c05918a6d418065d49f6b0ee5a01e46b446354bafb11fc3

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