Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fabae5f9dc5969bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 13:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d1ea41627339ef9cb758cdaa21332293 SHA-1: d683c63f68b3b649cdf5a31753e81909248e39c9 SHA-256: fabae5f9dc5969bb503d2560dc0e78495af8aebacfaee55fed61610ac7008a56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to further malicious content or exploits. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing campaign leveraging a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=structure+of+buna+s+rubber
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/65225740547.pdf
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/wibokogidanofajefeze.pdf
    • http://p-energo.ru/content/file/31741722928.pdf
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/doneluzafufoba.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fdd1537be1---kosejaxo.pdf
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/roxafakonetijebuko.pdf
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210916000134.pdf
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/82117311457.pdf
    • https://maurinet.com/userfiles/file/zujuxurokixisadume.pdf
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/8225883874.pdf
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/nazetadowasigexumito.pdf
    • http://dae-young.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/wukanufapitaveji.pdf
    • http://2016.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazojugadoverejomosulajok.pdf
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/momikukena.pdf
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/83672030348.pdf
    • http://vxclouds.com/userfiles/file/zakowemagujepel.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146d6d5b3027---dulojinipafasuxep.pdf
    • https://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202109192330576579.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403d077796d---44556576165.pdf
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/68121035928.pdf
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/kigamomimalileni.pdf
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/38981679140.pdf
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/volafanu.pdf
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/48055806715.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b4fc.bin
0ba4ef351c0b30a9765371c490e39fe81bc63dcc9d1410d293177df56edcef92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4FC 17196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e12e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f945.bin
cbc104a11e87109ee9faac135ab420eb269efdf62d2a52f53d2a943ba15b1ad4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF945 10508 bytes