Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbc64b132d779d75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:58:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c3d5a12d4afd27d8050b220f0999d044 SHA-1: 373b7f2362b44161ce087f9cb60ee172c5e0f723 SHA-256: fbc64b132d779d75d64ff29e98a03f17c550657e8a9c45fa8e37f633e156c8db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that this document is likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites or facilitate the download of further malware, potentially through embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sketchup+2018+tutorials+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0773c805b6---18780392748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/ludujudumibudalekipuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0d50c95fb---86652533508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d47de22862---29148725530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c087a8be0fa---67890900717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210816021747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22f6db169de0cdcc581b23cb093386d/sudemixozaruxajusikigara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dfc6e40aa09366cbdc422c8a3007dcf/73974379101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210806235806_632327211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubuvuvepowewasigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ca47f41b9---82651682526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pubebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1d8c8e8ea---38389281632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/51649403830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bbedb3eb34ed9fe301fdda913fca982/40763002379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9efb2a418---6951322988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/fobimakeputewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee60ad9b868---rarugugexovunuwalugabese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/93007541233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/ximewukemuzivubegakijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28be6c4208---rarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d7c223589---mibotojigekux.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_off0000d56c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56C 17920 bytes
SHA-256: bb89b3ae0860f3b5f1dfa7dd28c1fcb6fa3d5b58b9a83f7fdd786483abdbbdba
font_01_sfnt_off000103cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CF 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 74bc329b777523ee25ca52effb6b02a94900d72f2d7b5bad8d06554bcb4b4e4b
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1