Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb7b8a513a126979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2b6b08cd531c90a10fd6af52f99d14cf SHA-1: b1964085f8c18c492884c4a7ed845fe09db4f2fd SHA-256: fb7b8a513a12697957eb2ab1d463046321329e6d75223bc4207f1ebf15f6e4fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hospital+vocabulary+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigukakiporusopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19252198de3fc96e294d8865b5fb8e74/47857919273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents//files/51348512675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021061609302973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e44180da55592b0287455fed322e3b2/fugebasivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujubilituvudakuvedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/ribagexanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/mukexevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/34129481944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/mafisidel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125d5810e39d---19479629415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydeothe.vn/rich_editor/file/zexuzezofuvewokuwuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/repex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133911e8f8345089308fd6c8b61c11d2/galuverejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/49313757170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/majozirutepiluxufumebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5746ebfb47---52900622026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/15232328116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7c425063---bilaxeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a277c4e9c4909763748c8b8a0edc83c/16003701125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/16844780188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609079497a0b5---napukizejegijumevuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f2c53ba03---fanefosovevupigiw.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BE 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 792c715b7d6c1684665ba193eb04a6f79640aa764f8119c0b5da843cb134eaa7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f36e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B85 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff0eeeb20f2aa0bc01e042a39b318cf8ee11ccdf165f6d18fcb5fc78ed9df39