Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fae0d828d8e52743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9b4b9e65e5b783a8d000e29268b52676 SHA-1: bf106cd12d880acc233e3e3791492671de8d4887 SHA-256: fae0d828d8e52743e3ff6ccee29447a5cbc944ddf0bebde4732077670bbb802b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/dizevufusuvosafutepok.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/didetusizutebikeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/89613012623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62572793443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/39571895052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/mejewopatowoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/nometumofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210904111603506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22021758857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ece0009467---xiteginimoxetozoxomesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/fifobujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indemo.pl/Image/files/vejovebaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/50960275272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsgurugram.com/miet/assets/files/22254844310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/97105777392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshiou.com/uploads/files/202109122306511273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d9c7f2625---20759154550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/razetivixivimape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfengly.dk/skoleportalen/userfiles/file/57085653290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/jazebomafekukevudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubfila.in/files/file/pafenonojikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134171ec281f---7366710202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/pobuvevetezakodijonamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/31013101458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=appstore+for+android+phonePDF 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_off0000eb46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001035d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035D 10528 bytes
SHA-256: a1bf8c4ecd538bb38661558a64f42b121edffadfd2f2cea7913eaf8d69c37136
font_02_sfnt_off00011b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4D 18552 bytes
SHA-256: e76d9d246bda13a2673958aebd8b19bbe7ae05e4b073f77304d8d8de2ee21bcc