Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb451fa4fddc9b4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:37:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 03e2dd6e023fb3c55e59da1a4d79f470 SHA-1: a278cff637b52225a3ecf1ba8c48445eadcef016 SHA-256: fb451fa4fddc9b4b22a67529ece840a02777e6633580d310969cfb4c63a489eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mathematical+symbols+and+their+meaning+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/zenosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0a5304ff5---rulufodusexoxinamepitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37972014962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43917230586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/penogopilapalezitore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea3cfb9406---jonunonorogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723150b7de9---xefisewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/19169534284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///wunavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee54eb9d6e---gugumiwojilojufixalejisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115d0a84494a---93766522331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/gefewonasafisavodovalidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e246152ae---wubozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/63566757471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/45653609448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c310c8ba5---40979274921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c069089e7fba856a6cf969d3c7eb66/31899339979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/60748819693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slphs66.com/clients/e/e6/e62fa13cff665df70d7481f632b33819/File/pejikeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42a3af15d4---23009716914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40980357775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/wisepewosopile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/52554029056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/dogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/745cb2fdc6b0f031111018e1c68b5185/remuvusorudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1b181b4fa265bd96899007a2629555/6152623912.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_off0000dde3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE3 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 281847c21ae2f2d7a256d30ca137ed5500b72cbabaa8e92877f0e31753b36298
font_01_sfnt_off00010a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001222d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222D 11312 bytes
SHA-256: af84d71cf75c258f096cbde5d4f63c0044ca4076f4a73f2e0f4bcd5e701d2c80