Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb6a1d49fff4b461…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-23 12:21:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f11af61c44eae576aafa248c08cb7c4b SHA-1: 8d355131055133afbf10e52496a04c3cb5402b6f SHA-256: fb6a1d49fff4b461658e867f56548ceb909113a925478c9693a776dd18e2d089
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/25227793511.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/winitutujimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-5/20210605094608654153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c861dbb4f87---60219668164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlc4oj0go9gpf0hanvafkh5sac/55163597781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/54189073213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lysfyyy.com/upload/files/89640201813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/14572477860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210707054732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/wovazejuturelezarifadaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/41977589737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/puveparidegavuleperivugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161115039c7fb5---futelitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/mafalozedowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/54099066895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/julilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0vgrkd84i8k602pvurt1sfke4/wadawakizero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aonk6jdoucin24hlp6pumbpnj6/kosebokiwebizusuvegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/62300536451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokogekitapolulodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b011451c92e---23478152318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puletokuxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=king%27s+cage+read+onlinePDF 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_off0000f673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF673 17568 bytes
SHA-256: f857c02619b9193af745a38adac00e0ccf906380134ebff24599360bf9ca3b1b
font_01_sfnt_off000123e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E9 10472 bytes
SHA-256: e95ce95b97d48a6db35a3ba604c6ae70e34c53857b302487328179cfad9cf74c
font_02_sfnt_off00013b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1