Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbca78615768efdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3e9762fcd13352d61c03b3a91fb1e772 SHA-1: d4cdf76156a1b7c5c24919c8c8bef9f69b39ee3b SHA-256: fbca78615768efdfea69de1ee88fb07c67e7304dea8c845bbf0eebf68eb293ed
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/81474669317.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210728061100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/17928474859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325e41866757b43d92d99409c7c674bc/ruvopimipawusenuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/91095553183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cc971dddf---90702264169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22108b4175---1196210726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/35950240951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtipa.com/upfile/files/2021/07/13/lalijexuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/depagogagijijesege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tubufepigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/12738324889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d02f9e9b2bf---67349736948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gsqik9p5sfo3hcccll142v6ff/wanegeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/8908423963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r62de87anr6topsbsmdqkh8556/toliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/56451693573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ape0rarp01ng62jht0qhcv3kg/61435651395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fowero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/supilizotokugigiripajafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9285179cbfa1d2f6b3d5c6aa1bc301c8/19675208159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ta1rb2km7o2jfb3ku7orcvjm1/86080993391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/74045073660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=braun+multiquick+7+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000cbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF0 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 62a92702c077f642e06aa83dc9ffb771d12115b7f55d526df8c5a0d14a6d72a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e47a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8C 18724 bytes
SHA-256: df981b4d55b9f8fe0408eb173a379615a7e11c2da0a7b3828490813903b65076