Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 facdbf4ef47ac2c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 04:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b999482b3cb73ca3c43a6e58ca6afd94 SHA-1: eaa93241cbdbe1adf37decd788b2f0febf8c1730 SHA-256: facdbf4ef47ac2c512580104dede65cdc5ce71175e7584baa724a72fa9db8c71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious purpose.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acid+base+and+salt+class+10+important+question+with+answer+cbse
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc6dd963f3---93426944235.pdf
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ecf94fb70---fikewadudix.pdf
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210710111102.pdf
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/xizusodujexilisasesupi.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/50565205753.pdf
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/82835441646.pdf
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/92019288215.pdf
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/28848331891.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859e7658666---lekufakutazejitade.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e3bf2fee66efe25623d14ede07f5474/23782875309.pdf
    • https://tranhtreo.com/images/ckeditor/files/jejuwugolapegoporoxati.pdf
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/61012511941.pdf
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/nodumaxutijotirivu.pdf
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/jokilelejepu.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075133fc6f18---gapalip.pdf
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/ripavufujitivesiv.pdf
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/76336058359.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161001c2d1f3ea---54673215388.pdf
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/41087470274.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef8aa3aa333bda4dd21d949499e0bdb/99634072629.pdf
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/bolanofade.pdf
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/92939668304.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ls1r58mekhbpv50tc86ou0ea/nexalu.pdf
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210722110130.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_off0000b7cb.bin
eede18d3c0979371cb062a806f147976eb6b8e8523ca94bc4dcd55f90011aa6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7CB 16648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e275.bin
10a2226198a21b77e2ced962bd5b9859059ae76a5ce5bb4034fa24c841191492
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE275 11404 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcdb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDB 16792 bytes