Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb6aa232e158fd11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a61787d74e983a3f594aea1f17a4a64e SHA-1: a945a90ac241877cbdd5225e71ddcc75ce60f502 SHA-256: fb6aa232e158fd113fa95fc3f136d8545bf387393a4e232d089d2285fcaaf405
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for distributing malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate this PDF is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, potentially using JavaScript for execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/sufosikirowuwafiga.pdf
    • http://gymostrov.eu/gymostrov/userfiles/file/81204379226.pdf
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5042d435a93d3006376287557c0e7fe2/tijudesawupagi.pdf
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/27613186077.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cd8aaafa2---54665675199.pdf
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/xetexozigolofewa.pdf
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/9253060438.pdf
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/69497369553.pdf
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/52670646318.pdf
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/kevusulumariv.pdf
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/82518277449.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f1e896f40fef3444b80d00d06d680a/27103483291.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-25/20210625201839852975.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810017c082a---disenevu.pdf
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210710_94CA3F917278AD20.pdf
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/bokifemesu.pdf
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/63486755763.pdf
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/zuzifozebob.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea4bd9f06e---mokofutixi.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056d0f2b6fc7fb32304ea984b30e8e46/50000971691.pdf
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/95245822811.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/wowivomaxuwumaloni.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f36615ed40---madunelalebojawavanuzem.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma4idfco44q4f8f44p0a6k4qn4/pudowegami.pdf
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/59466363604.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+brunner+and+suddarth%27s+textbook+of+medical-surgical+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e142.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE142 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f959.bin
50dbcab3000dd77fcdc91d20844cf64622f339c460731b03d85c38b9089cfc14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF959 11656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001149f.bin
0e1f3d1bc4de05424ca38d5eb41a8801e1a1f5715493c87855f321f17de2a632
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149F 18156 bytes