Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb1357fd80baac60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 06:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a267ee70ec65b937f8c81d2e86881b05 SHA-1: bdf0f88558d0e4cbeaa6b990df3710abd6a75c30 SHA-256: fb1357fd80baac6062faba2c5f1e724a3c135fb998c1f21d736ace9e566ae259
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+proporcionalidad+y+porcentajes PDF link annotation
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/nojosego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/61491224094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749a683c7a3---gidiwonuzupuvatefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/kifadebowogito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/savobozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/15880137496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15552919327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/guvosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/2331565087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac984f12e5---vumuxitufuxabakerik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757ae17b58b---poxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/94756493316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/raxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27934ce3bc56f776ba3d0ea90c3ae8d/rozibivowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df7d65e24d0---gewuturosowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/99810172390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5tdb8nqd5jssfjqgrgtlriapv/zizisawerowagoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/godidawomever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/tudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e46c6fb928e3c4922ba1dd2ecc68be7/18358964204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763f1301fad009c285479dd63164eb41/47243808417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607288583f6ae---lizevibitolinixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/32619761325.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF586 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 57a45e0c0c4113d9f34d32270e3d1bd8a89e9556a390d60d318d527e2d129e94
font_01_sfnt_off0001253d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D4E 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 5c13cceb9d36bbc2bc20aea0fe1d16ac5c722eae827defaa6d249ccd2c25c082
font_03_sfnt_off000152d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152D7 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 725c6489754ea8a65d99689c6919c58752754dd036b356a8a55333d90bd4708c