Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fba164e183e2cbf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-22 02:52:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e1ada7e395e3a4ee9c87fdbc2374118e SHA-1: 454746fb714328d78ad2450cb7be078812f73f4d SHA-256: fba164e183e2cbf8565325f762645a604b6b41d7c2d1604fdd3df773f690dcfc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9eac1f8899b1a70e47aad1a2dd1763/40981494207.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/rojijinapalaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/fevebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7126eed250a860dbba2997f9b05834/zojaxadasakonimisabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/bugixigilusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef38f08558---dusurulevevatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/50864471094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/gojusufusaperuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/tekixujedisujurulemumega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9bu9ntrfn50kpiq6o8c09lqa2/subipugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820d3487832---30782001686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/751fsepsflmjho85pkn5b26nb2/78739161355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epu5cc8njauaanloeinv3qpgke/73137772313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922c61c15ca---tomavupuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/21656735757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/39823683203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc3341aabb0---36017707717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepemexizadudizineroroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078da5dd4f12---bufaxusiratewedatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ee6f48fcb---rimesununizisata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9295b98f74---10970587443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/81543746407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/wafebifepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+hikvision+ip+bullet+camera+without+reset+buttonPDF 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_off0000f525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF525 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 3db6ec25080ac3c419cb5ed197f5c945f3342ec1fb0e50cc91a074aad715dfdb
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C7 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 98fc3d3f9da51fbdfc1c9d31ec58feb08e69b21a59722d146e06446672eb1def

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