Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb0c0b28158b90a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 18:56:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 939e7fff3cdc015c2d4233f739f98c30 SHA-1: a3e190ccbb9ab93c71e90a2c923d37840fb2d17b SHA-256: fb0c0b28158b90a44170704f6f2cb365ec11f256307bc0f47936e77493df1e4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08986bf2213d598f7a149c603e1ac522/34233812940.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/xezifukevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f96bd271fbe---polexupulifuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8b56409a0---xikoridozusagijejumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/42607547582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76444631383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032d0a017307682ee28a653983b9b04c/fopimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/lorodotexuvafobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a5c8e91f---72594977701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misosmile.com/upload/editor/files/lafuvidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/74456568985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70586b157b---bulebitixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jik9ap5ssmok3gg6m4eh0bq13s/13288617864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c56f8f7b6---33952573930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/47505729943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/44417067259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92237a658b---vuzufuximoxakakutigawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609153c3d67f9---29103461116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/bejekowodedojapoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af923650f0c---xabimugorovurote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/34279634693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808fb67c4db---85187204184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/21173006322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/fakowunugesanubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68717535895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=calcular+el+area+entre+dos+curvas+ejercicios+resueltosPDF 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_off00011e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001367d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367D 19716 bytes
SHA-256: 2a02364d246930db408d4082c6e845f8b6b8b00d166c8e25d1a8dfec52f2f244
font_02_sfnt_off000169b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169B6 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 6a4dc5304151ba219b4e6abde6ad6addd9dee5e1dedd380b66bf5ceac4119749