Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7fb536ba5bc1302…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 23e364065277483c38049c9fc648ca81 SHA-1: 233e11bb7936a733b8083f53d16aa45845ff6f24 SHA-256: f7fb536ba5bc1302161765dc5d455fcbb50836fd2188b5015ba1f95371abd966
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/81070896114.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/93837972657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608668c4d5188---68164777109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd6f41d63d2---37713203195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/64819240327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/dorowikuxibebiwamajaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grossfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/00/00c8ca1d7e0432e0ca4c178cf0a97985/File/53603709842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/49246169884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/raxixevijoxagukoxejidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/67329955221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14473bb6edcc3567ae755bdd4933f254/penowaxetiwekarekamegemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6cb2be21e---sezozonakagirajujeleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c47ca5916---98637166635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105290850578883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhvi.com/upload/files/gijidaregavafubogenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/79660975221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/wufuwiwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ficfart.org/userfiles/file/5145923942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/96316781352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29188282405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/74335158528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59250117931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e03fbe58eea---xezevikewufodasara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e03ea573ec34b3fae75bb6a28df5624/39711472825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=past+simple+negative+interrogative+exercises+pdfPDF 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_off00010e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E00 18840 bytes
SHA-256: ae7557258fc38b94b6516cba11493b053407ad39edf6760d604fd47e38dbdb6b
font_01_sfnt_off00013ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000156ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156BA 11132 bytes
SHA-256: c99e3a1b870b2f140c2fec827592e2017a2eb1905a86cbbd87d0a6d657a8c058