Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fad00f8610d1af73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-06 21:03:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d7d666e920e88e5f0f5a474cfa12905a SHA-1: c24cf21238ec08fff1e7d94a352c6c267ce5a275 SHA-256: fad00f8610d1af7399413d73a03d8ba7ba88b274e960746db3fc4fed07c7ec12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an intent to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fake+blocked+text+message+auto+reply
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/34622064921.pdf
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/12185188023.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1e5361d4f---53735763743.pdf
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/62199066652.pdf
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozuzoseronuzoguwima.pdf
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/disozupawusaka.pdf
    • http://amouage-salon.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masorodewasazunijete.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/67268535191.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b6f530e05---rivozexote.pdf
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/87219784072.pdf
    • http://bmcsteel.com/uploads/baiviet/files/guxekapuriguxawigataj.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8ff780a0a---sapufamuma.pdf
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/86417890767.pdf
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/megagariwitefakudofipaxef.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/253f88f37ac435e2704e1e3e7907546a/zizusolemijibarodorera.pdf
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/kemusumawewefafilaxom.pdf
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/92112608778.pdf
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610336d32ce23---wajogaraz.pdf
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161043ccdf0fd7---samipaxavadobiwukepide.pdf
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/zanonizaxifefonifuvexovev.pdf
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/90453365884.pdf
    • https://smlstripedbass.com/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/temib.pdf
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/75450633529.pdf
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc82ebb31799c2e92a738759724d4ff/fumewoterejometupatapasix.pdf
    • 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_off0000f3d8.bin
67ec6fd61cddb5856e1f608e0012d117011e506189d809dc620788c8b967463e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D8 17300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012121.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12121 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013938.bin
a8c10dcce148f4b447f067940d582a20021cda50fea9b6e2d73cba7bbee34078
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13938 11188 bytes