Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbafcec44b3cc23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-15 23:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3037559b4b1c455f7f15c76bbc31e2a4 SHA-1: 74c5306ba56efb7e168112fcde0ee71b0ed090cc SHA-256: fbafcec44b3cc23e3efa9ebd54b24146cab8e07a8bf0acdc6d32fe075f97bea5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a malicious link farm attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/93952949970.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/96738976970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/19106452994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/podikomoganobunuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-07-28/images/files/1260140147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/duvosisufajemarolaxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f34e73f49---46755877819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29fde5c38a14a84b0ad46d02a1b68fd/98279495516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/xuwujagalomovuvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/mipenemexuguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/xulapikitegosojeketipeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/jofixeturagajipufazizali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4450733891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcba06825f419a3a35e266f47f066cb5/naluli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/78864595181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dd753e705---5135627415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c909ee85fae---75463914335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54ae199e70---dekite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/82867473920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15513265370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/lidilapunerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3820611de72913336df67fc94799177/79078117231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/nujafesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/tasakunupizofaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/fawinodeluxaledota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+clinical+research+associatePDF 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_off0000e19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19A 10320 bytes
SHA-256: d5388c9cf244bbd340dc11ce42908f1cd3d4bcaa2983a2c91c6216b991c9612f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D7 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 06202f26a790d6893e70357e8b2dd0c4f1e28c13f685b1183cde6f636cfb89d0
font_02_sfnt_off00012451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12451 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1