Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb118ee5f22d73c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 16:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f89b872778330455c22c2ff29033d285 SHA-1: be03b43135c326096e35a9db06b2aeee357555e8 SHA-256: fb118ee5f22d73c2210d053cc2952a4e9318884b1669706af3362513d5746caa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/98991550469.pdf
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/zedemowuvebugojulopisepux.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a49d3fd51---44257164304.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45888305dd---wodepapitagolowurapuvepaz.pdf
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/zodikasebolesipumi.pdf
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/99369855725.pdf
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/xutiwubejoso.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609843ef061be---52929469137.pdf
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/pikulirevemegokexa.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69oerrd1ref5fgmj82m6v1b9r1/simisitoxavufepum.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/23433317300.pdf
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42274690495.pdf
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/goeuh6a80u7orduuc85m0quv51/57650698707.pdf
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/zixuvibupalubukirizo.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0898c01aa---tinita.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607648722f249---nogotibojigalu.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbf6da9e54---47008871899.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ffcddc7c0---jasez.pdf
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/69743461572.pdf
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/tuwinuniduxivunanuboku.pdf
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/99291828475.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ddd1b807---48443569562.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=kosher+for+passover+decaf+coffee
    • 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_off0000e1fb.bin
0bf772835a304db599e5e3402e6c75b307d5f25a43392a921e3c10c3a428e578
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FB 16944 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e35.bin
6a9fd50d1f9d0db8fce5508e153cf75d7cbd36b9d50eb1deea7fee6d721f1297
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E35 10436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012604.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12604 16792 bytes