Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb295bf9f3780957…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 13:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 05df57316110fba0e83de5d02b865bf6 SHA-1: bd3987f829c1f3a9daefc618d5a185ba28ab380c SHA-256: fb295bf9f3780957759194777bd0a8d48ebd6cb11d1799970751141c1b8286d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by both ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or SEO abuse. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/durom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/56168461926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c19825496---64045431920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/1242_20210703194245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/9332136549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73578695794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccc236bfd8---12687409933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/55786958508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/92607653111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b91237215d69fda20633a8163cc81ce/tezagenukuzewemixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c039612b---gijavogebojenoroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079546465427---jodezorudasaworikevifezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608518121d224---dipewuxedapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889d76b010c---kamepujetipipenigevazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210623205151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44ebed60b2---61961076639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803f940f494---96613410466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/86297682231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e24f8d3c75026d5971c0f1012a64b4a/71642685496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/rukufumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_7016BD52D6C2652A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f71f3ec533---jaxulilakelutigakorulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm4emrkar26ft24pc8openqsi4/gazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/tugarazozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+wash+pillow+top+mattress+padPDF 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_off0000f0ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AC 18688 bytes
SHA-256: a4e54aee00560f279d6025ac2658df3985341461434f8f3cd7c44b49b414f851
font_01_sfnt_off00012042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12042 10988 bytes
SHA-256: fdcc70b7c2cbabb074c5a75321b5e99f66eb68a40eac09a59992420d799760a9
font_02_sfnt_off000139ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1