Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb607a4dc33a9fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-08-12 11:35:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: af4dc8348c269e98a40c4d343bfccbe2 SHA-1: 303ad1509c3f6e9b3ea2d501c8e8567f31c3b241 SHA-256: fb607a4dc33a9fa6a3ee1657971ab11236a98399cf6ac0d4bacda5ae6294c72d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a malicious PDF designed to lead users astray.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87166682382.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salinasouth.com/clients/11073/File/98262860017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/17934508086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4a8799d098---zufopufufudegemumozibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c0a965590---57455067169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79d98e3b6b---fefivinejafaligapeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgrf11jsmkovs1ms7ubhm0fq12/93105896741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/besoredokipefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15065106467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/kinaneluribakekavuriseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/5576343833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/66445031739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71772560624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e852d04520494beb6b2725382d1bae/7094642884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4ae181cc08e306610d10efa5a85558/19374434712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6bda687cb11cf80e222583d208af340/fudutimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhhuubinh.com/upload/files/sobafinawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xylemleads.com/userfiles/file/zamikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfd0830b59---47416619467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ce60b1f0d---79531538354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/duwifikumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ralozaborasonedofavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/jetinixojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c33e16da89---55767653094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/pufuratirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=serial+key+panda+antivirus+pro+2020PDF 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_off00010246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10246 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A58 17660 bytes
SHA-256: d3929b7fe595ff1f6d0739d2ce42700e042bef336faa2bd3a79b266d546f6362
font_02_sfnt_off0001478d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1478D 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 5b06c386a65ad029ee815ed617632a4f3655e4f25c6a6f2884bb372055d53ff4