Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbc16d409a7b2610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:46:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 36499aee1fe41667c40dc66b800422cd SHA-1: bf8aa782c2123ad14c231ceb60c701d141e89aee SHA-256: fbc16d409a7b261051f67c168987849d1e12311599968c5a568942fdaca76c6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO spam campaign. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xuv300+bs4+price
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/fodabigi.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db0609b397---jurufu.pdf
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/39120024661.pdf
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/88477571701.pdf
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/vaniximekiwabofamur.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c04ffbec91361e2e598aa57f9b477d/7488301893.pdf
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/lukivululurulokagulepul.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3dmfuetn9b6pp70rjtl0rpd7/64092751077.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9205ba326d---refujodimilufowesa.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a457ef0d714---22777644509.pdf
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/molapasivigudewofo.pdf
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/bixusakedajikuxeg.pdf
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/24242468401.pdf
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/23844944332.pdf
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9738a5ede---20758715596.pdf
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b60f4263e---favitenojanafaf.pdf
    • http://mayfamilycircle.com/clients/5/53/53cd9f4101e72b768929e5daf979c2da/File/88434221105.pdf
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/63582237606.pdf
    • http://elyriacatholic1970.com/clients/7/79/79c6984f8945646ae1b55d50a6b4dbab/File/50791978695.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/859713951dee19052ee6d745d245f9c7/lumaxi.pdf
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/pugavovukibi.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c59d582ffa985afbc50443babe0b1fc/porelal.pdf
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/46649981917.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0319cd4ad8b310d849ddc6a8e3b2bbf6/45289650581.pdf
    • 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_off0000fea1.bin
78c172cee523304cbf0ec6f164514a23b04bd0c30a5329296526042eca5bc362
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA1 17120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012bbe.bin
60d9ecf895c80ec3f1281d2e3bbb426a606fd0c62b5ec696372932d0419a4124
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBE 10520 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000143b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B0 16792 bytes