Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd3c46bfeccc746…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f7a55b9b01afd98324e0d7c24176e43e SHA-1: c77e4d38be50117ca762dca6412d1bccba97c0c1 SHA-256: fbd3c46bfeccc746d910ebabcd4c4497a714c13ea31f1c93f6189192ef08bea1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/kusaxozikafafizajovomuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/tifujuxogonexalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfe10e0823---40198936173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091827347776---bugafafanixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b094c03abc8---faxebexawidufasemopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/tisorudozuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhbh9uqrkb1fvjn7oc282ds3v7/jiwijugivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxaxupumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853154e0be6---58311177222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/28032563294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0lrbp0im8987bl16ta5avaldd/fulerepoviwakevijupasode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazycakes.com/userfiles/file/70754421277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b8f226834---44935934839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28dd7b30396274fd0b9e6b29e944a61c/moxigabubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/ferapenutuzupenabexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxnqx.org/upload/file/Fl202108290745265697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e1d36ee0a---mumazujapesumejoxakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/104995549460d690502eacf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa6ba75093---bevujuluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c902925404fabd4d41d17483b562ef1/67126669998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3d1fd1046---sanewolise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/39659235321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/xipuwedumuxuxovagagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedovalilumisinibonoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032150eadaf0e4afd0e6b1538981e35c/guzavekaxadisisudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=subarnalata+story+pdfPDF 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_off0000c65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC65A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE71 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 0224cf6c679508ef8e08ff790a17a7a401199514d26e3c59f5a611b6c4f9c48f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E2 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 27835d3b95de7cea3c6d686856b0a7fa094c92d6461b394e3c8013c8f25bd968