Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fadb038a7a23a0e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 13:34:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 88d4f6aa24797422df54be4c509f5a19 SHA-1: 158f4e44471b9032286ea9643cee375e5d6ee5fa SHA-256: fadb038a7a23a0e57cd03dd33189f7f7fa4ea8ce22fe5226dd29254153501b5b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://redactron.com/userfiles/file/zofozegusulited.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bdnchem.com/upload/files/12243702994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/mobutijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/84218620103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60933675888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139db99e4d24---bexoranivopiporuxekobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.kocgrafik.net/upload/files/goriduritogupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bcfc4534f---68680096785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/32119064978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/velifiwukefironefemujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/96247999434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cfb04b50ef3f124c82310db7d477984/56493164280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/vulakajanunijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/wodakinitakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tj03frnn9tcea9180crqg96j3/11752915606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/26458724639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387103ec8c3---vibukowudidagusekutuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31app.com/userfiles/file/87754019253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibarugi.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/debofoduxovidovozijiveser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71136357343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/dibuledarumedemedotipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/2109091159583714432aw3kpgpg8ot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/40881688295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91075656810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=change+email+signature+on+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/28358693343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD649 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 7e926423bc7a2f0e9c38ba8748c067aa0c3e3aa0e5ceed855fb540e1b75a4d1a
font_01_sfnt_off000104b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC7 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 2f4f2ab88a5b66e2a63cdc72b738c07f3460e5b09688ab52fecbe89284b06d4e