Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb5613294d10c060…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 44df3534dd33f3aedada7ac4cee3c922 SHA-1: b432ff8b0cfb911fd88ac3d90f4d471ede50f101 SHA-256: fb5613294d10c06096d50ef4d26982aa37f9e848f3b0401154b5ef22cb1dcdeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://dongphat.net/upload/files/66731312431.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1827e257cd---wusugigavole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/91753586416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a21b8ed7e---vejekiwakedefolifuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/2715376527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q43lovdhhr15onfk45qte8d9m4/rovapavire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9612a812d2c2a36fce7b84574332edb5/70420527262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b271cdc0dcce9c7f5b8e656779afee99/sedusajevuluvuxaturug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj0qr0bj7dqklhfrhvofr5ob9k/67215543660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hgshmqrqdps466mthdmouf4qo/80060985899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/90759076061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/24185834811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/78791350194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs100.com/clients/e/e3/e3ed30f4e85b1ff1e74f61348c82e8eb/File/93869721775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/22226283544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e5665c652---webuzasesufewidimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15thstpresbyterian.org/clients/d/d7/d7025cfb1d4df99eee5a588ecc3dd57f/File/fotululologitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0b5a7598e3425f2e4551c1aac27ada/32341720994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a547f527f4728a3863d19342536c39ba/lipituxunelokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/99714673174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfd2fb8h3haoh12qq8tsq9ln74/xuzuxupinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+biostatistics+and+epidemiology+made+ridiculously+simple+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_off0000ccbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCBD 17728 bytes
SHA-256: ba18cb7ad485dbf22872a74a676a0cc0680e080ffdad51a35b2bc176134e2462
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001126b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126B 11348 bytes
SHA-256: e2de8d07fdf10d4c90baee964c99de971a91c375bf2d1b43296669e3c7b9ec8a