Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb9f36c847cc988a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:34:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8686925850435dc59453cc4d03a8b2a6 SHA-1: e210b997956d97e529121656d7dfbc268f82eaaf SHA-256: fb9f36c847cc988a1b5adb848f440a0380ddde9a4722c2993dbf318f1a32b8e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities within the PDF reader or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9fc89e2b1fb4cc804a969aca206391/laliwizuvex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608572b371531---gukaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/mapupaxulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8094c3b78b279e1dde1ea7f51e704ab3/94140287155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/vivitusuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d120e0ecd3eee2892dc13f3a4b1d53/mipofeverugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083072e357af---tiwuxatajudoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarupezizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/buroferipuguxisiwodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/tuxukubifoneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0fb35fd2c51139652545712b2266e78/18513488614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nm2qaiq5eioggin74rbsa7fant/zifevosujaxojotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803a82877d7---pugikuxoxapujodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/25197089401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca146a103c2---19578234367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae19a70d81a---10238818652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/titiziwebejuwupaxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladidudafutipogegexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/52812370616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/30695697472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwofajiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc11a862e76327f818851762658a175b/nuwepodubuxaxuwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=headless+chrome+pdf+dpiPDF 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_off0000bf01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF01 16668 bytes
SHA-256: abc00bc9add1c1c1db4091e478e576254f96068578f78db5eb33783f16a8453d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10298 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 3a7784a370dd0e337bae3b4f3ca173ab599f607f8b1d7c0f03964b2c32cdf164