Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faefc2b790ae1836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 83b45a99149e0d75831c4c5f7f2938e3 SHA-1: f80ba4c983ff12d5865fab2deee1049f3220bdbe SHA-256: faefc2b790ae18366780eb3732483ceb8b4e94c45dea9fae57460f3d0a35f44b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, leading to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7bb3fa487e40f4eab02eb6397afd186/91192695804.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/20091574379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5d58af29---74123768836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uafbuughd8cm2gnt1a1708e4r4/nazumobowoduzakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/pofobepabilovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f46d6664c---21795484309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdf69e589e---famox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/ranufosanurebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e04d5ebd9b9---zetaretosidisuvolevetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2039557489---94337910654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/golanegewutige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/45369867598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakakinpump.kr/fckeditor/upload/file/nunoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c4364322---9148107634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c17544d1b1---51434506892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/mavuzumotozewazalodekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/datakuvamaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e014b529e7---tezafugilipaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gbe555o8vkl2b385t170eqvnt/zozetatajinabaketuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf503765b289a50e469069947b38531f/lafekezunalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbf048acd17---822243877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18f682ad1d4f691127f6ce28e7b23af7/62368260377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4db27d447fc276b28ef9995438b21d9c/sazusixulutilifojonowigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/44317064780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+ounces+are+in+half+pintPDF 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_off0000ec08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC08 11036 bytes
SHA-256: ab4b5ec743036f8835650ecf6e861d0eaa587f89f464504be0ecdff68388a51c
font_01_sfnt_off0001058a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058A 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 7baf69108476e841206c08f8e1f6cd29911af6e61d52cdc45f22913758b7e053
font_02_sfnt_off00013221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13221 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1