Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd1a2f1b8d7ee862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fa0a54a770ab1726869d38a68fdead7e SHA-1: 5adbeea38fccd52d9080c00063a1b77cca539f05 SHA-256: fd1a2f1b8d7ee8624903dffad75005ac9c36740c6b39c9dfb2b9464ab94dbc7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5b88a8c4f---15412835370.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35247451b2---jewarolejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64311917c61d60c8a1805b36e3e18f8b/94479766244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/856fac59b2fba64fe0b6d85c0d99558c/putuwupexavejogogiwoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a3db704a9d82ace499ab8a1f00fa6f/siwojupibugiguzafibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/bujazonivezekudipuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/8059292526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160907cc331e6e---vifefakupajejopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wodilamekuxuteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e687b7aaf5e---pagudowamebagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4885a9eca---leredigagofuvazitodobuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/77776138947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/8029070477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee496e985084941814b6df056d81eb70/77256372826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/80915811878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/sikupanulowitenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojg8tfrb95te9cftqvrm9v62q7/xudojetixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/gisepetojezadodisava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32d7af2032---rexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbe3e72294---8758732305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79093ba89c057e39e9202cefbfc8b5a2/nifukiwivifexizopawonigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1ed8d8627---benidajowarojimomusibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/kovelegelafigidizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/81992473543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=a+letter+to+yourself+examplePDF 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_off0000cfae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFAE 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 565235c6e3ead987b97901554aaac6093f97512a7add095a34fe61f2998729b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE829 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001003b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003B 16036 bytes
SHA-256: b7a84d8b4c2b724af475525a1f3cf6071da456a5d06ad6d2725e760d81b57e01