Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb8fe59f409b96a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 01:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: baa59f8b241f6fbb8e2b22876ff90898 SHA-1: fe0790b957d31e40c16420f17310678643815787 SHA-256: fb8fe59f409b96a3fc6261d0b31bc6e963b3de2ad99d02de4031d9ec4f11ff00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for distributing malware or phishing credentials. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://snsi.jp/image/news_file/kimotunuwofiwagob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/54307589645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/42262320703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf82a1572d0d8b1230c3db31bb42cadf/97621163262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7pn2f4mqn21rcgelroe298d96/59574744708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/xibabepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/wawuluxezuduriwusipuboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/gegifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67cba1d23c37f18b3f0c5e8fe5d459b1/51526609808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/55273062833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/kuluwetevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovomoxisurulefofuzanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/lotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/fivojebavimorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b109af4d---sefozilomefexuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58200267110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f6c57bb88---76884991453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5k350jq4uucn82kkk2d4o2u2c/99197219525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffcfa19bfd7---zedepakigamuxikipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8e0d25f1805475690c8288820a0b36/lajesazekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66cia5rrah24n1ooeqj350rj6b/lefamebapewamofugirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/wifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f224d73f6e---kovokujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9d28c10b4f0a234026700fa794371a6/nezovibufixeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/76412705854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+reset+my+kenmore+800+series+washerPDF 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_off0000ebce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E0 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 25b9e98e492d9f5bd13949988a7a5211a12462dc1bc2efb06307a4ec3c6ad3af
font_02_sfnt_off00012da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA4 11080 bytes
SHA-256: d278df658f5a76352800357202b08a14cfed8284e5360003d477ca60f766c181