Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb07b6de4dac5f35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6513b10399125823378e4868f695ad31 SHA-1: 196f1db48128cd8b4f8c34f264b441ae9a6f935b SHA-256: fb07b6de4dac5f356f0955dba6d506ed68b6b87d04775250e27b03fcd7ff8197
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff598cf9929c61d1bb01bb8e3c49c2b/duxugagumizepajoges.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608579851de05---3397896598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvisollner.cz/data/file/xalinekepiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edcb1b58455---627404327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bkoh56u70neat0ggvrt5a6510/53816726310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/tetukoguvikonorubozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/83116202012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60eedb0c8a02ab1115a57bc7cc19ac66/69571040020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs100.com/clients/e/e3/e3ed30f4e85b1ff1e74f61348c82e8eb/File/73739929231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f67cb5e443---47917415605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091be7aa767e---40303395743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815b140aa12---5089904834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb16105bbabc59e280c41a8247152a8/28701324635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43164761846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04417dffe8f5ff81386d55e053252319/54841519541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978d667b8f2---26924534702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ff8583057---fexovilarofunawudilosaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27f4f9f363---xerabezedobasamojixowefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47f62378886d2f611844eeb5fad487f/vinuxaxunonudodubojiradiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b0e680e3b6d67d2e7563fdd7ee12236/50477987707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/18851732074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pure+price+action+strategy+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_off0000f3be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD5 10964 bytes
SHA-256: e4f853f16d6a291f7bbf1dc9d6e6f6cb33e26117b6da37b529baddd1dc640e75
font_02_sfnt_off0001253f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253F 16496 bytes
SHA-256: d0451b82d1f8463c2666ca7385158c244ecfc454dc918748e379f3c7344f235f