Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fafbab6ab62b8a98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 09:53:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d704808d7678d52370923a96ac89dd23 SHA-1: bdf03f8fa0ca9ea360c1c88e5fbe17b501c6a790 SHA-256: fafbab6ab62b8a98b582951e053d61af5a4019d172f77a63a22426c48598295c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9890

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+are+handsome+in+chinese PDF link annotation
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ha3bmb4i89vcj0oa6sg9k3kfk/12603450587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d3ee78348---kokuzugazeriloru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a9a3653d5---13055599895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/78900127639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/lazaponedumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed9c9297f64866cb602b84b538021b6/gitenavuxevazunuxisukipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4aba446b0---38183814499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c110efd26---midazesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/wubupurolusivodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topplene.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210619192902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef3385f95d---70690715125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/sutoxufikezetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/95238497438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/920b53104fdd0fc6e1ee7ed1cfb70c32/vavebereferifojovonolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/30041245180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/moralexutupavoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vqql2vooenq60cv61vm6o26hu/zitezudovefalipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkbad7untat2pkp5jf716883el/larelivojanomipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/zepejirovuxebikaxagujefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0b11116e2---89072759799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa91fc4395c---68424587640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba3b1477b00da5ab6e677687243e2ad/93981784371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipaviwofisepepasebuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608401c6c3813---rezekutijufejak.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001231e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231E 10572 bytes
SHA-256: cb202457f456f0a4329f158933ff72c66de33b5e6b7c0675d059e8da2db1852f
font_01_sfnt_off00013b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B00 42184 bytes
SHA-256: 29239a3caafae8944dc7646631640577e6e41a7b13bcda749b0e41c61a9176bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001ac03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AC03 20708 bytes
SHA-256: d740ce20959f80e66a9d3d102e6b2eb5601cd730269ee61a9d45ec2d468a5fbc
font_03_sfnt_off0001df43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DF43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1