Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb5420e857c30a7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 00fbd2c5b5bc98d8b248eb0c6dea8cd3 SHA-1: 5a8b172826aff2694776fc11596a553ac23f7115 SHA-256: fb5420e857c30a7f78828e7ee1d5c5d0847ec93ed2fdf00d44b7f4eda43060c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely to facilitate further malware downloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the phishing nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.
  • 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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6g7i8d18r8gg0ip8udi5pi0tf1/ramuxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/37875046665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/95026479615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9553e135a134e866613dc7f33d82fcfc/bejopumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66jrte8o5vdmiu53gmsn9qes31/55103311950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19341174192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78c793adaa---12913801315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/18614481643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/33266487021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollywoodsalonskokie.com/admin/images/file/bimuxagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ec5b9652c---23762817331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/28836407007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amt-alarmy.pl/userfiles/file/23189045517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/18683183203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b175615146f---guzoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f1db8b10d---65506260599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/12836908950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14a8031115---17876064750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a1876b8413bef9bcac24e3c6d359e9/29584188350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30406114635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af2fc4634c4bcaee57d2d6ebc1a2a2f6/68763888635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/84276201106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+reducer+free+softwarePDF 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_off0000d396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD396 17044 bytes
SHA-256: adcae99f8224fa63e585db8f76eb2215e71d0452c4f7d5a629575beb4f2ff916
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D2 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 045f3556e9f4598e51e99efe6089849e33bca392fc193b3cfe983907b3884763