Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faf9678afd8bb5f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0686524e0fb779c6710d1cb3863bf2ce SHA-1: 2b7f2f7a441133f61651ebc3840ac103e6a3befd SHA-256: faf9678afd8bb5f41dbaa312f6556874fef9d53955904287e52cf0d4362d8a09
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that act as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on various websites. Several heuristics indicate these links point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=call+recording+android+source+code PDF link annotation
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/96423891805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/bezifusidenalaxiveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133958fcd4ca---lezapafoxoragaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/14460163419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/78572675625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/fuguvatuxogiwozoloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damvua.com/damvua/public/images/files/69753127960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewojosovokezajipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixijopolofinune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-hustle.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/teselovuxenepidirire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/7843651817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyneco.kr/userData/board/file/nofafotutejebepedavofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/96435480069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugaxekepaneb.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613032e1c8e53---jetaxudivabewufefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/dibexofefijidaloreta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/43107755804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/fanunewoxawoboxefojumasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnrlu2231eka3heeeqsskk3u9s/80594244199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/bepujudomokibuguvekize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/33900847874.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_off0000bdc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D5 16876 bytes
SHA-256: e65ba359951b298992ee13f65abf421ebca4cb1162c6dff199db2712ad602b71
font_02_sfnt_off00010109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10109 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 02b27c67bbd67ef41c5b8235d087e7f1e16a66e54c5f050f861c2c16a7d5e980