Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac92076effef6ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 08:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 11a5433832865defb9cc58daa901c987 SHA-1: 81e0def31a1a2f9f85da77b169cba7c4e97690ae SHA-256: fac92076effef6baced8d58d004c5da1589d34e567d1d79407379391f2692e6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous extracted URLs confirm its nature as a malicious link aggregator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61335016422.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/762e09dc30146516c0ed5163e1278c4b/bokosavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massiimo.com/piceditor/file/25679374115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/89881252786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_EC6F14335A836F13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangthanghuong.com/uploads/files/toxixatagijirivatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109040455043105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/21214264335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d81c268e87---fobimozomedetewozowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/47158901012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65427539869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/75324372130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45145082871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/65239724359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27679905fb77386bd90d310a2307ef29/zudejebefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1e00b55d2---zejibeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snf.styleguides.ch/userfiles/files/97540669115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.si/upload/89725809881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021090800022782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc1628933f77899c868b57996a501a2/48282760555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/84976895293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.custompackageboxes.com/userfiles/files/4666165922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390938d3a12---tikaputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/golilazinasolulabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/12429086431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/detokagutejimuwemigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=c%2B%2B+without+fearPDF 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_off0000d57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD57F 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 876b1ac100b4f0d0e7a845d6baf6b185332d14de2199021aa27ec89a9259da5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA5 18028 bytes
SHA-256: cf61a779772e5d438f7ab3d9def35f141048148a7b75ae04927e24d48ce77620
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1