Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fba2777dacff755e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:18:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 1ca41eafc1b472787ffb3bcab683902b SHA-1: a7a4c31f633c688de54173e2b4920b8ab302d4e8 SHA-256: fba2777dacff755ede39598e25685ca1d1470a60ae51b1c0118e3bd3a31b6eb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://freestyler.cz/img/file/97996779357.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613650de7a65a---fokifipavipilesozogafixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///79975893027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jn-zhsc.com/upload/78467314839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akconta.com/uploads/files/vinujuwuzomalupobotafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toflight.mobi/attachment/ckeditor/files/a92d7d8c21a81b4d72a6e7c1e0174360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/83080809351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matao.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/labasesazumakolitowineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/37984299224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210910232252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fefixesuvejufikijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/34480413510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c7e64cf3eaa65312eed30c2634addd0/92323131556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/75914369296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/82828697685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b637cf1a52---16290260233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/75712954408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/seselusezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--krmer-dnnebacke-1kb72b.de/files/file/78641519424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/rigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilnius.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/91264275756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hof+free+coinsPDF 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_off0000b168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB168 14076 bytes
SHA-256: d40c80f3b34cd2ef809ffb316cc0dc750d4ab79cdbbf8a379255f25cf2a2b5d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC61 10012 bytes
SHA-256: 5979a78ac880fb61d632be38df73f1d99b87c8375e249c8fd7ba9830e43bc0ef