Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fae15f0eac086131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:10:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0129a1efb951023bac758b2f9acaa046 SHA-1: 8eef723328636a6443a8bfcf89cc276027daea91 SHA-256: fae15f0eac08613105158d24666ee96c4ff34295818c26dad3d45e90be3bfefe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' suggests links to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=starting+out+with+c%2B%2B+from+control+structures+to+objects+9th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://blueleaves.ru/userfiles/file/21753506414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/fidagunimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109092346476298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/molunexalepaxaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/doravukatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/75621929734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://med-os.com/user_upload/file/zulirumusidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosirutebepojenofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149bf68cb540---11883986321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/25392875051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6ddc0bff72a7164f9414e1c91f33e7/xufiwididibebinifemupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/butakuxazadodebodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd07452452cecc1af3c043e696e95cb4/66154073681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vekekanujipanuxunegavisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honderhotel.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210914095245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cc43012573---lepifepexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/segutaxijuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/lapelewibipakiwurixoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/vabafizuwokalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jabmp0r2a8pvq2pd7225juims/wasidojefixovubukidupani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/57112712260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokozusesejimokuligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/56901676431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f4e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E0 20208 bytes
SHA-256: 03edfee725c612991a6e18b291ab2d646c0b6ef6de139e31cfec82c6bd5523ec
font_01_sfnt_off000129d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D9 11768 bytes
SHA-256: 156953da37c154e175739c96ffc958ce1118b825eceade24f8154f9e0041513f
font_02_sfnt_off0001455f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1455F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1