Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb1547f5119b6d35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:56:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a3d18703239f2ac0306f1d7d973b70c1 SHA-1: 3adc6dbdfe7ae2b00fb440f6475c0171c2eb5173 SHA-256: fb1547f5119b6d35edb3076375956852d7092f6ca8dee0fe9bd6540f0c470375
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall heuristic profile indicate it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conics+worksheet+with+answers
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14av1d31rvgmqa5d17jt2non22/masaxok.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b635105cf3f---moxudezigimumiwawijuxoma.pdf
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/91863084403.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609165efb2744---rejozalifizawa.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51a34ad932---88014982798.pdf
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/fijox.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce60293a0d---nebuvutaw.pdf
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/tewadofazasuzab.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06dec2da7559282a89208bb5f9f4a8f9/74145142173.pdf
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/muvajisa.pdf
    • http://efeotokiralama.com/Upload/file/tudodufakuzuvefopajiw.pdf
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/45638442041.pdf
    • http://anticacarsulaeborzoi.eu/userfiles/files/fuvuwarapipotegok.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac493c1fee8---zuvete.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/98413951557.pdf
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/vusoxiwilipum.pdf
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenonako.pdf
    • https://avphunter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90492031458.pdf
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/76943456286.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/tisovemetaladuvoremufaw.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b899ff654a4---21828915287.pdf
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/80302011788.pdf
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/rinuzeg.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b64cdf5c3---74707553771.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67652d609ae3680c18788c18ed7ba9e8/17934566037.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026ace9a7a9836fe962ba1b3f5ca9527/71018456073.pdf
    • 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_off0000c3a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3A0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb7.bin
3b7af1f22459bbe996a2636c56898258a3da59a8f2b893add2296e4772a57170
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB7 10488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3a4.bin
5a447e6f53b2237b1eb0518250df48ece9428f17f8d125ba31853e311aeaa976
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A4 17340 bytes