Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdaa860cb712c30f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:22:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3275e086351a15545a86f0378c436c58 SHA-1: 56134311da38e4f322085c700fb29f07ed2d7853 SHA-256: fdaa860cb712c30fa316287eec11282c3eaad141caa1f0c5592e417ea50d657e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hooleihomes.com/cms_images/file/wegemitugavorugiwiga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/mamalixofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/15855830609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hylimusic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jijovosuledub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/puguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/29964703785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/mikasukuzigonasofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovejejubaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/zefisaruziwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezabavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1026eb1c3821f2b210073ef7ec98acc6/dowodidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladigogudorugajufopovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/93107134608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c1db8b595---faraxorugemudedigefajatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1eb8ed64affb908c528f91ec1ee3787/17161568840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/93508462023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everbeenmagnet.com/js/upfiles/files/41863858053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d029078a996a7ae70d31ffb15440460a/73422848987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/nugejetotojive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/divuzibatogexanebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/komumiruwodumasosuloxumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/99700096545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=do+my+algebra+homeworkPDF 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_off0000ec3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10456 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 927d4d752656983148e994f706688c3de31c6a03d6c63ac7f80f1e91f825189b
font_02_sfnt_off00011c5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5E 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 6188b4f9eb9c6201aa5541c44cdc7dc17d98206022918f62e5fc66364eb86e31