Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb8d72b56665b7b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 389fef8252d7c5a57c0be8a750dacffc SHA-1: e7c81590946a51ff90c7bfb3532b7f1246017f1c SHA-256: fb8d72b56665b7b213cd9788e82aeee34fe4bda38587b6c99460d1ecae9c9f77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skill+clash+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://ggbris.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/xizapufanaworanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/vavulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_479ABEC6A2504594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herfon-machinery.com/images/ckfinder/files/20210908122526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cd7522918eea573a4b8083a38027153/65154677219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/89714510654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/61618120603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/33809319659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/reritemodatisidewuvoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/35646493739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sisozotuliwaxevifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/16115674884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/34243980869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/waxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greentreeprep.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/226479944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/nebubonawotiwofewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/jomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/lasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/68994214613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/99434354982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/goragowuzixotilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161459356e28cd---19846064840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614423eb12486---wamaveriwawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/33430090233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/kuwuxikaketigomiko.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_off0000e6d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D3 19088 bytes
SHA-256: a96c3e9c4701fd7526bde736a8bc623866d77793cbe650c78e5f4c67da73ddcb
font_01_sfnt_off0001172b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1172B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F42 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 9cd86cb891e414fd4db1a3560b86dad20210489c488736869fd51957a00d392f