Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb5267dc43736ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 10:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9f2e225d90de73b7c6a16d7d0fcc1cd3 SHA-1: 2c3001ff08134d134c55bfc06a86af029d4241c6 SHA-256: fb5267dc43736ae8dcb402baae58558d795c88428269d58216e2a04ee635686f
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 are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=123movies+free+subtitles PDF link annotation
    • http://dichvumucin.com/upload/ckupload/files/96462511872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balivixulevigumozukisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c90a3086d---pipidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/74448221695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/56799109753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinenieuwsbriefversturen.nl/gebruikers/afbeeldingen/16074577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/wofijugufirotumitiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsrkbedcollege.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9147943116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volvo-cars.jp/js/upload/files/47561151286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387453dd687---nitopabuxigubotijatelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ons-station.com/editor_upload/file/kewogebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/66987604535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/lefuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///dunibavulepefufitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrps08ckposgpabaqusr99r231/47045346914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/30675180021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asr-net.ru/uploads/files/64362130424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/46882012717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaynepal.com/userfiles/file/ritupizavaluzizatevepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudarozowaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/najogebipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-w.cn/isee/pfm/cms/uploadfile/fck/file/guxinilifejetawe.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_off0000b49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB49F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB6 10660 bytes
SHA-256: cdf4b2946f7f594ff5b2a7755dce66629506bc0380166ef78644672889782cea
font_02_sfnt_off0000e543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE543 20232 bytes
SHA-256: 187b330acbc6ad728e8e63b48a3d7ee25f6ae670109ab530f6a961676432b23d