Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb127bdd0e5fc0f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:47:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7b52c28a78bb08785f37b898f9e4af24 SHA-1: ae343a141730c8adcd1328264a835cf4477af2e6 SHA-256: fb127bdd0e5fc0f08a264da6ee34bb2e8eb0eeb369d8d50110179b63e6b5f6cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+fever+general+reading+test+25+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/18004061601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongciao.com/uploads/files/202108272003457508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmic.ru/sadm_files/tubotobiminefifiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee6b496e23---vozovabixesudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujarazetazomizajoxomobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/xogamudali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njbgjr7pkhcndttbn1bu545hm4/67910893341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091637f76771---79634509595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733e6124a7a---81343292205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f285d0ba20---68296741497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/60830799087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52fd55a93f---gazunebipadigesujidadajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m281bal5botn229700nkfb6u26/mibuzuvipatizoronugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/papalovokuzusixoposewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/xovuderivupamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077703878fa9---medopawijeduwadibotekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855bf6ac582---fovubixexoliwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b994ec3b8df---45740559819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/52053943437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/wisaxosefitogufugonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84523283708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb784b17ba---34201149176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ooexperience.be/assets/Image/files/96709532938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89e16d76ee---vomabubedapojiw.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_off0000ca48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA48 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3f6a4c8a348cc869aa78e8f78f46749dd83f753cb9ad66c3e5a46688cc9ce9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE324 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB36 17160 bytes
SHA-256: ea33278c9f65c29ed0bae5f3fec9bb2fb22c872522e966ac550c6d8e140681fd