Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb8571c340b06188…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 313fdf00fc1995455971a486decf6562 SHA-1: 13b85e327b81f372dfcb3e51a7cb8ad6ea9566cd SHA-256: fb8571c340b06188bd5a20bac3693476df2a0ffb74839a38edd848214459e641
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 disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

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://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/83139262425.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fca3a8693---41952797889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/3286449416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fns6mt56beoks58n29t3tvt63f/rozepala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abkg9etfs070ve6rhgqqb8k6aa/daxubafozotenesunewosebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/femixogatodudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d6a7e23117914299d1bcc3b9b85f9fe/75312687369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7c3499f2d---sikuxemonitiginipekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791c6d484b9---48722524362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/61418407479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/69109346140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ee3bdae6ac8bc89c1aba7125dca539/15358906829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22a6fb8c10---73687937383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffbc793a35---7856887971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7452af0af559e3eadb38c20dd38070e/94798295388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810620d200b---zigoxesubawepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607139b70d8ae---xefoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/77641259723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b59ab2ccb2---fotoniguroruboroliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93d4e19fe2---tipoxejinebakumuvemijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73552229290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837dbc3b08c---3850436380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/64279333408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3tcfp3pkkr6okbkh7qbqhm88i/bunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=learning+to+learnPDF 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_off0000c53e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC53E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD50 15820 bytes
SHA-256: 1ac618e39525e9395dded4b302eda84cecec47aa81b950ee1950f788a8c5d87a
font_02_sfnt_off000105df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DF 10072 bytes
SHA-256: 96f734272cfc2ad0280dd148663b5ee9823b4c1c3565ca99bdb93f55ed32aced