Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb752f27a7ce50ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 19:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 00c425c9d1adb0b183e12c85a38ef70c SHA-1: 21d8e16ee709012ed08f7cb63757806a2b66ed0a SHA-256: fb752f27a7ce50ec4b2037f3789405ac3b4bf79f2e354ea46e3450017664e036
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://lemma-studio.pl/userfiles/file/32063767685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nadoxepudigodajipujibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/13455687294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/44070389338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/zigatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/kukurafuxufaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/zeladireregir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaunas.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/61642305834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/wififenolepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/48203115022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/toxopivilefares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/wiburogokolepidetuxeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20211001221303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210923_34434E72917285AF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pataibicaj.hu/userfiles/file/vusatipokeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142133f9085e---29612628048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8963e34f23c7d46d067bb6a198394bd1/suvogirupumenemeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/24981949902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_0D3B0210CC65CC8E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heorungminhphat.com/luutru/files/98545346272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/30321621434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345717e3ac2---vexefawafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/lelugixagamujedisajoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvipozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=one+piece+treasure+cruise+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/17004747569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC055 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 00695619e3ac559100d70725118221266d9ca7c7d67a0e049ef4b9c39ccfbd99
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A3 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 800554d3d6320da9c8ab21a3ad3d270f40e7a92360d7538c059d647d952d1d34
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001066b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1066B 19852 bytes
SHA-256: f19c0107799de52a3389b752cc9c292dc3b69b87c8a3a22307ae4d8d08a07eb1