Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb8644222436545b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ee52e04e074f3da11ff29a53a168b9b0 SHA-1: f4a6b0ffef144f767d1897e7fc42b6ec40159bf9 SHA-256: fb8644222436545bec13507ac72b1c09818882b8985a93667d9c8114c8ee9525
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of numerous PDF link farm heuristics and the ML score contribute to the high confidence in this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://topupdana.com/contents//files/66739436899.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a7d451d6d---somitixemijokukavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/dikoxibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/bukevopipakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57fa49a765---vetiwilibitexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/20199059682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e70210a31d---pagitujoziriteberawojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/38282909543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d8b6b93e5---46697623625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fb11c5a05---80995440358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/36151721004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607deec0af771---lubukiwadavajaxulodironi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047a65a6a9dcd6fae09553f50c5147f7/63017889809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/rivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73961568194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/lixaxibelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/jowadavafozerenukumezoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/90298588001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/pabetoxetunorotelutuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icn35floeml8nk200it1atmhhs/worolagebimikakalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c772d5d70d9---30645773160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=download+files+ppssppPDF 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_off0000bb92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB92 16072 bytes
SHA-256: 9e1a0590bf88ae6fb4bb428d95bdf6a5666631b66089d75b19ff52eda723274a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 9f72c3485200983f2900bf26dfdea40c16ee3bdb0b770ba34735c1fa280b6322