Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fdbbabee264ee94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 23:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 96e08072b02755503d2355b665327f65 SHA-1: fb2eb035f36c2b032e6b46c82eb51c991c89af05 SHA-256: 1fdbbabee264ee94bc49c9af6cfd9b21d7b23809959f9bc507ee26372c958ebb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URI links and link farm indicators strongly points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/86086029443.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91c01a4ba8dd091525bde06f5530751/guzaxagasofonawiwiwamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/nekiterimesisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kefateterojenezile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/67812776452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c798d59ddb---turupenaxilikovofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/71153688182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/kazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/50333791719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e342fc0cb3---63782919217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/pefizuruvuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/34828743334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cf3d26e3f---sivovusavupaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d6177f575---27419379489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6ae68648e---nonixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760be699546---44780555108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/kujelapejebuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/zenoxelixilokikodinubonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ade6054cf1bdc3a02d4fc461bfa9da0/69063054048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/gokebulasiruzekofifaboguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/kiposodolatanifojotegoduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021061905748_636508763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/45894128044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/91936831559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feecrr7m7opi0ddrh9ajr758ij/45291702471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/8516158980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/64261038433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=muscle+located+between+the+ribsPDF 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_off0000e800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE800 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010012.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10012 16292 bytes
SHA-256: ef981993aa796b5e56af7d761b88ef27583c4c4197fb128febfb2558b1c4e386
font_02_sfnt_off00012a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A34 10788 bytes
SHA-256: e92ab592f534443f879082797a8af51fa8fc354194013f13e1f16e155f37a42a