Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb2b70ebb26ec832…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 22:13:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f503239e9e73b791770427aabbdfd401 SHA-1: 82f24a3c18019ffa239e7a054398f0bd3129ac74 SHA-256: fb2b70ebb26ec832d74f64ffffe18be5ea5df52150e7be19a31db169aac955e1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains embedded JavaScript, suggesting it may exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting points to a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/megubesuxin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609676869e293---70267227800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b175615146f---guzoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/99740411023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/omovowozesuretozitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54692908339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/32154221271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be042e4b071---62794414812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/jumobanavotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g34923880s8snrg61ubqpff9uc/94565162158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be074215d4a---48129191621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39455226653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/39422367024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af599378d52---zimoligopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be871f4e090f7aa7f5883e8815c71deb/samunojaxebunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/26450366364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ab539fed8---tokoram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778e6a7e9e2---51487786192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f3d57588d20b6ba98706d7fd562fc56/55589145956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.org/scauserfiles/files/79150034642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f127b45e5---kudaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd443707246---78970787097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderia512.com/js/upload/files/binesenizenutamulubadupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/70565991781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/vimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=read+365+dni+online+freePDF 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_off0000f408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF408 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec130b55fdacf2a6ce54cdb5fdca68f3dcb9e4a58ddad79658323267cf15411
font_01_sfnt_off000120eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EB 10600 bytes
SHA-256: a95f7a978ff095370177fc1c617feed077ab8bfc041b73bc53a1d775c8c3fdca
font_02_sfnt_off0001393c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1393C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1