Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbb7440b89b7ae5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:19:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 37ff40b309e03c2fb946efdad391d4f0 SHA-1: 6a0b0900e3d58d108e9bf7420804bbb254fead2d SHA-256: fbb7440b89b7ae5adb03462915b014948c1c7131d26229666f4e44617a36789b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the conclusion that this document serves as a lure to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pickman%27s+model+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/51433901198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23123060753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202109200616278322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moulindelarroque.com/userfiles/file/dewuxagusofulafazolerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamantina-joaillerie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2190137570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngenadmin2.nextgenphotosolutions-beta.com/app/webroot/files/file/73989415692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heureka-cz.eu/files/sofafetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/fupabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/90848058788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/kaxibefelupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f12db6ab948898b498aa89c16fb1612/32987948589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ysh.my/userfiles/file/nuruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/kemajowagefefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ea563ac80---malon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd8c6110209be689c3e02d297cc2735/64652505459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0049808d686222d4adbec6693a563e85/fofigidedemepufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/fabogexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roseeskin.com/userfiles/file/20210918080811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/fexidefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cae5d516e---moxifidexelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000be45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE45 10708 bytes
SHA-256: dfca050d21d1b6f0eb2fe477545ab342518a1d7b1c53a78e0757c6c91609a4d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D7 16436 bytes
SHA-256: 7113355f109763d970b2a52d15aa810b0950fc7046c72f81b5046f1a151cb47c
font_02_sfnt_off000100f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1