Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fad9eb134c84957a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 01:28:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e6a7d0f8d7016a7c805e4c5891f382bb SHA-1: ab1bbcb925b192cf03466f7dbf6e03c5c33c48cb SHA-256: fad9eb134c84957a13926407f1911e75bf7f4ff5c652174c4608e83439663cc2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://brs.jo/userfiles/files/koworatux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uteambio.com/upload/files/84727122621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/10056518862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/27563376184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/tejixajugeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcb43d2fc9---botiwekopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/79754595035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intersonik.eu/upload/files/girumefesakogixubiwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/vevagifowibadoroxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/18850122669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89707396135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613275586aefb---kurufiresadadibotezapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109101054162027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.net/userfiles/fckFile/20210901085445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b8128b9d4cc497a1743dfead0d08864/givogesono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd267fda51351adf6ecf90aeb8a82642/57872374460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ddef6f653---sezegurilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/koxiniges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/lisatipabekuvifabomafifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teedinmaesai.com/user_img/file/82882432311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=snapchat+on+android+vs+iphonePDF 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_off0000e5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFB 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 1a0b074cd5539106f12bfc0c91dd71390dc0231d6b04c2d0ffb5e5aadad4320b
font_02_sfnt_off00012d1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D1D 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9e7a46b7508b5fd6acded64a659c13025759b64286ce8d08ab92364add80d9