Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faf680c9db867add…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8c526c88963920a27699786ff7c53049 SHA-1: 9e1d328c84c4cd8f444751ea82f7a0f04a84e771 SHA-256: faf680c9db867adde231306a09418c01cba33fb2b1e33037733200f61e20319c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a pattern of redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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=world+bank+project+management+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6f6d6cc11---26225002064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/bavifasilofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc04f7ec546d6b37af48378f27d137d/loritanotozibedibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1de5313c80399315ddadaf7d19852b6/42102377524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38151ce59757ca21cda2aa7a11f47418/79698212947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29421938138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/88775239902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30be9ef843ab8733f4018f18dd3d2989/kukake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c163aa7fb17---lakuxusoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/jakinixefaxojefekukepigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5aba51950dd62368f9691bd8ca0e875/85190070832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b290f60170---18137285527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/wubadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74de16146f---mimewurijujamofosuwegomes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210523214808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b34643f118---66226455699.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_off0000f55c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55C 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 7b32c48e38212ad8bd491883dd262a5798ad741414abfa5d9fdc1cd743fe3055
font_01_sfnt_off0001236c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B83 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 7577659194560478b0be70e705c116d542b5f9132773935e3a8debf21a46a494