Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb129956d9d849c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 296033d27badd7da70993987775dfb75 SHA-1: 79d021b7e4bac8ff713ada3db80a8438e5d801ac SHA-256: fb129956d9d849c4158fcc23ed2901f8a262a4e726bd72312446599cf704ae91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The structure of the PDF, with many links on disposable hosting, further supports its use as a lure to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgbg0sed5qpqub6shbnt23br76/kakenapukuju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/dovetibalosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e2f4665b7---favadidiluragogeregazeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/81179266929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bkairconditioner.cloud4demo.com/uploads/files/10200777987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtlct8bm34c0rciu17evqpcinc/54241930787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/lovasufipofuxoketubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a4851ceab6ea7abc1870fe422bc4d0a/82746089128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210719_064822_5280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2b043a0bc---70795221944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095edeb8df5a---44381491588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719137b533e---retexagivatimutonidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1v8u50ka9j0h8ekr6elkl1b5t/jidopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/kuverusize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/97380672896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/sobexebikuvila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroupllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62852253337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le1k23k6t70pl580vgsg4n5e0t/22272526537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b6ab65f3a2478733ad452cc48f7266/98195643526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/37204823946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152f87f221ad192ad86aea579d544058/nizedexojubidexelimaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/754943799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbaf66a1493---26355028573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/67767381661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/bupafurefazarawutebabofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graciaindoutama.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/zutasifaduxunavuzese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=nptel+civil+engineering+surveying+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD078 16312 bytes
SHA-256: cdcfc2985bc066e0284b63d1fc53e300cb0f0398cfc570fe7e2909af2b52a1b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11248 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 9e228926f24fb9354dab70cc1b553520996bb5dba614351076a0e2b96574eee7