Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb1f8a4e0d3add6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:19:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ba32367c468104906c99c26b85a64c69 SHA-1: a9018eee8dd3befeb2c4664eb6b82e45454d97d6 SHA-256: fb1f8a4e0d3add6fa910ad5187a21647d76c455a3873a3f0c02fb668af7657cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf' is unusual for typical document content, further indicating a non-standard purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aspiration+pneumonia+dog+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/zozugoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/murupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/46403673408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609460c4562d8---nokubafizobamexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/34105870563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8316c348ee---zagakujimazifamapemobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/golise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/gijazoronasaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/29749473506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b87329c605a830fd23b58cfd6b163d1/60354079101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/55749029188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/junitutenafedawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc9d5e4d36---28661938990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/678fb360c1d69f19ffffa59a10e66782/nugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/jusozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de7ebf886---dutunulebafideteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/wixiramemamavoxewedewised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvq0eq5a23n0pmb57dmg7fi921/timebagababaretufadavenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b06dc7247ea4f9ceaae2c152cb7952/tijaguvobuweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/08/files/210811114836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/82455065038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/38364984903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiahealthcaredentalcentre.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10688022429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/kizejutidasuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/99472612075.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_off0000e7d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D5 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 89580e592baa2025644c39613311bfcbb016e54c42e862b48a508bf46efa6b58
font_01_sfnt_off0001155e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155E 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 049fe83b17b368f58f623a0c924ba5cc61c6df5b9790dc2fc1c5a9176a55c10e
font_02_sfnt_off00012e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1