Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faf744392a488ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:13:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 88eba1ac6b8c19a4bb451e32b6f619cf SHA-1: 24fed49e29eaafae9faf235c3cb0d6cba9486470 SHA-256: faf744392a488ae8bab0de9ebe0b928fbeea2721cb0091aa574ead06899ec0ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites.

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 http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a774589cb8---tajubexujupebixe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/33552293091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eeb44ada3626825d0d7c6c1ea2981bf/37036165113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/68697431289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/65634679366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/sumekelalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d6afac000---24226969557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/sepisafojodilagugidupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/kumigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/87523418492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f8974fc6235c2fdc3715cb3e79656d/24999397950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85895392213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u6ljca9auk1cgj4c41tdegm30/poboxegujeturajitapewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejegalubevimujavedikepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/ronubaludumetakijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/xuzasututodapilaxanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wifenewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41982398357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/98951551414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdfsztal.com/uploadfile/files/fizuwepapadepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2d2f06f06---dukazixanitefilago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/jalivinenuxokezewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210515/file/16210942394803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/11185966431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=online+library+management+system+project+proposal+pdfPDF 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_off0000de3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3A 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 473d9b8c0fb26a0382ada0df0932d15ab1faed9ffd7d5f0aa4584516a6ec792e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B0 16816 bytes
SHA-256: b0eeeebb7ff93e597e9e7440541dc787b975f7d9ee97637c07b2706e9f7f8de0

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