Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fbdcd42ad753104…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:54:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 485a795550a00311a99f71c5bdbb153a SHA-1: f3eed679fcb6e04f31517670c900379cb3a937d7 SHA-256: 4fbdcd42ad7531045fc4f58b6f4e71415ee38d8c8b9233758bbb85a6c1929a63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://dentherapia.hu/files/file/60904246068.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/jubegaruwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab0a5d6237b16c23118cc8038d55f34/libofaguwuzimigigibuzuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a377ad0593c---kozexilidakiranov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rittenhousereunion.com/clients/a/ad/ad7d26974070b67854a29702aed78614/File/12618706676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/75762467799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c68ddb8dbd---senezokoxirevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc79805225---79502991881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvcer39oioeh0odlg3qq84gv26/68185513316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2daibit0i2s18330re9tiqa3in/wejisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/domarevanupesupola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad03acde65c---bubuvuxojajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9289c98927---63965926367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_5201136A3AFBAEA4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/legatumirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8164fd6690d9479f04f5d4e67520237a/17142237672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0f3233506---57695562504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/bojivido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wurbs-hanau.de/userfiles/file/18197192398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/wenemazuruloferani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/dobujevefetetuzisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9ba73ffad---zovifuviwotazemawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607440d05dd6e---57894513177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/setolezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ce81fa6b4221552383f5bed03d2c8c/90821607096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/2611544794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+debugging+in+software+engineeringPDF 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_off0000fc30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC30 11028 bytes
SHA-256: f507cd126dfcc42eedb024b58eebfa76401ca9acd1f11bc3ff2ff8d05dafaa1d
font_01_sfnt_off000115a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A6 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 078d96772a44f1d34186c4d14211cbbe46fd5aecb552da48766daedf2cbabb4e
font_02_sfnt_off0001425a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1425A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1