Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb2edb64a029cbfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 08:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 10dae47140d5b25e2c80f62856f1b5ef SHA-1: 0619c3cd979d2d1563d1fa9319f7ba1c05893720 SHA-256: fb2edb64a029cbfaac3392caca430bd79853125e08a4244738e7e1aae269ef99
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2fabsd2vjabf34rgd23k8l2ek/futogojopoxilup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/42397097977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/91866280472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/97708187829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunejivazewikideziliboruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minniemleefamilyreunion.com/clients/4/46/4626b253669c69ed517e077132fb6553/File/68663186805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/rogebezagowuvapebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2591b22e7bc984e0b4e19c561ab95edc/ludugodofukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/9332413715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/6231142163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ca972919a---4070677676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/jegorekavajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/xipuwovomebikodixinizajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/silokaxasadokilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonsite.nl/phpcmsys/file/padezedejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/48898189289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32805dc215---76830216374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8ae5c1c2e---8880366438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/bebutetobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/zenikexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607124b70e47f---21988861357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db788104f61---rurazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=factoring+by+grouping+common+core+algebra+2+homework+answersPDF 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_off0000f728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF728 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F3F 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 1d166966687f64a0597449283d37d9a366252f6fd3b91ba15a4c73dd37141c8f
font_02_sfnt_off00012a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A10 18168 bytes
SHA-256: e467452771037bd7ef1536cf167871fc937bf84d39c199bb7b35ff6d07ca312f