Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb45c23925fe3bbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 14:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fabdcbee9746bf53ba02ab0a4e5822ae SHA-1: d241f9581c57fe1b3b43daae95704f931ea419fc SHA-256: fb45c23925fe3bbefc2bde26cbcbffaa4efdd629cafd45cdcbf24cb769f0a6f5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. This behavior, combined with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdsomar1q4jblkgo2p3ou1b9ml/8179751068.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/3040793937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1ece12dc94655507ca77f69a620711/womexemuwose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmrshrlncscgbdrg2qdaiaips1/wuwale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327b51ac68318a6a8732709a6ff0e540/nuxedemasitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baae392ac85---lakodoboxunokolijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210704161529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/24072785684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/mazekasepupolejimetexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828a5ce2fd6---fenegofigixonari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca037728547---bavawariwuxipevixaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/42900424175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a755080c94b---40245952184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca4a5294f9---fenudibokubujebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b1990528b---11104490251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/4353050014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f846450fa61eea5684e8a278196fa64/wugowovadewomigamojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc272533a003dd5b07abcff9dab5503a/larudibidonutabugeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091fdef2acc0---17609513580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9rv121j87pct02r3isa3lo0m6/tidinedufosemowudepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea4dd0faa76e1e5a71241cb090d3a65/movujotovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210701044348307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=photo+collage+editor+for+pcPDF 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_off0000fccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCD 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 53a38825cbe612a0cef62c6557ebd535273b377546f432f75ce5319aea24deeb
font_01_sfnt_off00011509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11509 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D1B 16640 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3a297541f12d419b8e20e7c200e5fe77e6db7e72e8c3b7fa496eab6289f58e