Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb8aff6bf4ee1363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:38:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e01877b61fe1e7d58f5a515d6027e595 SHA-1: 7e0c70bbbe0085d74a3ee72b170b15832dd213f4 SHA-256: fb8aff6bf4ee1363eda1b0d59870bccc329a2dec5bab534086699a79dbfa74e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF identified by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to lead users to external, potentially malicious, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392e318ba6f8788baeed932363b479c4/88212589515.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/userfiles/fichiers/27674742001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotomil.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concept-art.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bunaxowiwamawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50ntisqnr158j0prm9uus9ilo9/gejakezorabuwasefajagexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tn7q3mvoee752omca5vku4dq3/190725203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naves.cz/res/file/turotonofajanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/poduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6e39847d2---karadijupizadewazemekonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c1e046a456f4ba31527f5f795f26e1/xajimetisute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612972bb442a8---fedomuwanofofutozobikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/bazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl092ca96j476pmub12jofmlc2/vojudasovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd777e39fec383132aaf4c3c807cbf5a/61620026657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/rinogapugofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/36331592484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56cff04059319aa8765888e67cf6037/76565363104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6abecc9c545a51a028c674879c7b9146/33334091830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/fufefanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/87523210371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4ea3edc07---vosugiruziretabulegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/daxekisawowitejamutazuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/38009862989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usap24bcn4822ub5alvld3b5o1/vulajolerobaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemicalengineers.ie/images/xizewifazoxojaxivakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202108301127071397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=avantree+ht4189+manualPDF 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_off0000f068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF068 19132 bytes
SHA-256: f057f7667ed84bda5a08f2c555422a3cbf571963788c14f27776f23cffd24129
font_01_sfnt_off00012285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12285 10644 bytes
SHA-256: ed4ecfc952f501b37ed909ea969466fbb9507d7a1795078dd416f9f3b93ca45e
font_02_sfnt_off00013ae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1