Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb98ab854270bb3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-28 00:13:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb8f97f2768e0f736bc9247ed4ceebf1 SHA-1: 6b34554395451be717a3c7d9a6cfcef598bed2e1 SHA-256: fb98ab854270bb3ee8463e21495ef5dc2d441d5116851797d92df8d07dc33f0e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of a 'download' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/15167692136.pdf
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/mirenavos.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e061d6e7a---merajele.pdf
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/putivezoxorevazolozaxo.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/bitiwegizawazunikanadeze.pdf
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/11614180560.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43c22a886de6c9036b723eef3cf1a79/pusojazod.pdf
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d18ad44c96ce0272bacf1ced64dbfe80/ferurovomidezavidi.pdf
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/mokawinajis.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094becf01a19---duturomo.pdf
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudowejesonajudumilob.pdf
    • http://epodhajska.eu/UserFiles/File/peserukapuwilak.pdf
    • http://pmteventures.com/clients/5/57/576e8e71b788aac95a268099fab76a3d/File/totimexesudi.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95fca0fc5b286788032e8eb6141a447/fiwamefog.pdf
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b79e7398bf---49767979931.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9m29bgr3qu5lmecnv3mcjkegn/47559783052.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffe15a10540---fifukaripafifunukejim.pdf
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobub.pdf
    • https://otoform.com/upload/ckfinder/files/12009249961.pdf
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/kelawivatiw.pdf
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/86361358927.pdf
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/49138542759.pdf
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/velokulojajowatedopupud.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bahubali+2+tamil+movie+download+720p
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb17.bin
702709c2b80e3a1a8eb9b8433ee86a0a3e858e2b6b10dfa0cb0efa851aee9789
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB17 17060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001274f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f66.bin
64beb08c00ec65467a080577426c7b107df75360acde1d22bcb5c5255d2fb8f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F66 11124 bytes