Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb40395d96f95039…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 71995b64e1f0bfdf9b43829309875a5c SHA-1: 753cbb2494f9596f660a40aadf0297c35b96d0b1 SHA-256: fb40395d96f9503993a522b93e20b50854dddd7b100a636044250d0216f16d47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, embedding many external URIs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or malware downloaders.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072481748063---gudaxagegevub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebelafipixazusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3a75b82d64---50793798448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b0282f1ea---dukozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/25984008364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/nalebipizevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171bcb523e0a9c5b7654e3a12d136e0c/22526107104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/65774861314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161237f817cddc---birodelowibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48790886191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5ad311966---62309495766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/xuxikotapowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/92132410692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129f2b3810b5---8981119082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/19049757111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e44479cf7---puxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibzakon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-31/20210731135832296419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/rabubolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/27543043285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ju70h9eqde7181o2d81i5ruse/zunusefowovogutekexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/75306615196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/jitusevovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5a4aa3d79---lavunulosalifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=anglicko+%C4%8Desk%C3%BD+slovn%C3%ADk+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D8 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ad18c77bd9bf8fb3dd32de64d4551f1a6a6d6731ddb0cf280a08d4b3b7b774e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B9 20532 bytes
SHA-256: 024bb55aa041cac5754d2346bf0a597c9ccc736483b4219f93295de162e2ba39
font_02_sfnt_off000122da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1