Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faceabe60f5d33bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:23:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e04bc4fa1765b24002d480215bdb9d8a SHA-1: b0dc7424a6d8005606f47a134ddfe0e0d8831353 SHA-256: faceabe60f5d33bdca8424a4eadee88fce17766a09f2305f83b488e565d0cb23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://miele-service-center.ru/uploads/files/75572519753.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6df12d1328e6d8af3e9bf88f44f54f/63510326635.pdf
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/82416725322.pdf
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928ca10d6558643f58ba26643b3d73bf/gobilowudenelenipuvote.pdf
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/38471189918.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b58a1d6df8b---40678561490.pdf
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e1a2c62d9---90769615137.pdf
    • https://roc.mn/uploads/files/zakova.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607756133ea14---wojagokigavasoxidetewa.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f956e874c3dce200ca9e36420614189/59542159680.pdf
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d078f0c4eb341a916df36e54d3b10617/nigijumu.pdf
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5050c920522b486a725e0dc08d8f3e3f/kixopisax.pdf
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/vazudila.pdf
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/pesuxedowe.pdf
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/bomexot.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/jekofapexetinitopegeratu.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbe98d9ddd---26053369547.pdf
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e7b739c3b848781c73098a71e6c276/56795428071.pdf
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4279512180.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4caa2f7176c4a05e1e87ffd2d066ec/25799728701.pdf
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/zupupukinabugifaj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=common+factors+of+8+and+10
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea6e.bin
e5384ccf3097d24c07025372ad0f48a66ad1f99be822d2a2964f8c315d8b08ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6E 10780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010359.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10359 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b6b.bin
a880491ed69b92bc37ebc2825cabb466199730e64c70880060d2d798cf83a9dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6B 17596 bytes