Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb9248a2ef3b2192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:13:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 01df398b1c93109fc97aa21cae984a77 SHA-1: 0a1aa4cb70f0b4dc0074e538de5c7b38831c50bb SHA-256: fb9248a2ef3b2192c4a74e6c21ee6238054a88c1bee50bccac531b54f68eff0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9vj3cs060006e4s8b1f07jvh1/6738941674.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/tozuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/97717904142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf361a6a68f---30664906768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/54611663587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078052ccbead---gogero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/48478894506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/belatekisovojabike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1607b3a99---47039175427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/86572085715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/46683659846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msuhv3c5u5k8e4ochgo35l7794/pemekudesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebc1c11ba3002be94ffabf947b7f619/fivatekadopagedozeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2qvo9ofeg0p235ua02cefm5s2/kunutuzetowagina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/10516162473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/vinikases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/xokonoxapepepetitupidebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/35941944206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a474c8f234e---futiwozajosaxeveboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/fejedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/varara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/630b1503d30bcb7395cf0dfe32cf326e/xazadufivarewekebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+manually+check+pulsePDF 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_off0000fdb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB7 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 55f298937cab12330b1afc12a18eaf3ad85388a34619e646ba701a4c9b65c62b
font_01_sfnt_off0001169a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169A 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 0f46f2c55333a2bf0e6e48f76ffafe81dbc848668def0063586db8869ac6b69f
font_02_sfnt_off00014142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1