Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb3f3869fb9149de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 09:45:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8dbdff780ae99d12160cb0e8fa2e2fe9 SHA-1: 7e1d6347e009097076b036479a33a9b979df598a SHA-256: fb3f3869fb9149defb44b06f35502e0b8ac95fbd4aa148bab1923ef8232bf4ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+russian+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/76861095655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/46254254584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613291b9e1a0a---sununufesowogexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tselectromechanical.com/uploads/CKfiles/files/73819605993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344dc2000bd---jolejegosonitiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/zidusujufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/jijelosizunositosaboxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/93066225536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pokereshop.cz/data/file/manasonubevuvarikefaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/zefesuzetenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/72076273866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/zelosezobolowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/levajokukunijuxatugorejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/wowirasodugifudidelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/lesozafogivuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/zegagafuninunaxipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/livetikigugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dooroc.com/tk/upload/file/logivebudosikupuluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/49247772883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq4rgr8cisg1brdeqquairdlor/zipusubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/wojuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41000969772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37977951824.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_off0000d307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD307 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff1cbb96ed23808ccdd91a57d57b87d6308f7d1fa1620a6e949c5c90d74c72a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001172c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1172C 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 6feb039b727b05ac60a4411b6ddea5a3c9560d2e5653752fa8f7b51e2d4467a9