Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fadbd15514250405…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 01:10:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 32716f78f1ab056920f67fb318e1b4ce SHA-1: be6335b83c3f918d59a2812882d7f9e1e7cb9a59 SHA-256: fadbd15514250405c026d094d6e0d31011226f9d55e155f8b791f6b57ccf8fa8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+fazer+convite+de+anivers%C3%A1rio+virtual PDF link annotation
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9aa1634c19ef3419c2bf0ea50354c56/7815544118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l9e6ennnh062i89c6etc1inq7/31193549689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/fevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59ce55ee8e---33920989511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/92413895417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7f9236acb384ad6fd47861e30e9831/zokusekenurukarafuxidibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/fotaxadusivonakilubozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elb2tfo82s2lvvlolq5uqj54nj/62394067551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5ls5qj7v7t07b9flmp24i3j1p/rebosaminizidejubekejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/lurema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/14095465914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96728490897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/19840319373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/zedokodeburuwosuxesuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpsputhuppally.com/userfiles/file/93976886997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicaconsultoriarh.com/images/files/xefisadedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/zibekosoponubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f76fee839d5---nabarugegep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameragiaminh.com/upload/files/56033988852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f9d700865---konitunuxobipomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/38819556563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/faraxirudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210506041706.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE9 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 76b65d5ed761e25aefe57ca37f0a69899f2fd1fbd9b4c9020664a26cd2d67f72
font_01_sfnt_off00010569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7A 16664 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce1d7fb44b8b9eb3d898df45ff9cd28929f6df00ce91f27ae50c1455812cebe
font_03_sfnt_off00013445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13445 19204 bytes
SHA-256: 4337e701bc60bf72e30c3123378e14c4da1b95e92c15784b0445f1483fdf16a7