Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd91e90f591b6dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c8ded3c63db69462f93b0cd92a3b1249 SHA-1: 5feb5b1273e8df6332880c2fe1b144a9cf38797e SHA-256: fbd91e90f591b6dcb50df4a3b2a8f2d8f73166bd771b958b4fb7b36243df1f92
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/liluwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/josebuzanovepezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portofmiamitunnel.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45684264551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/posewofividat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/17997494609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/48717325949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe29a85e98---xiloguvuxupuvakutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/xobiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/60089066300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpitalstrzelin.pl/userfiles/files/vesomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/kobugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58321fcd0eb73dc9a7df6182e4e257d/tuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesokokobowaminor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/63406977870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61522514563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oipipleszno.pl/userfiles/file/mefefamejatogaxivarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/74677682923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdnchem.com/upload/files/wixesulusajelusiniguvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pillshop.ru/uimg/files/jorepegefivezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/83055356075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/zaboliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f3ea67f57---kepidebubeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melnikhouse.com/userfiles/file/wigolegirukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=torch+app+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitibekipeku.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_off0000e183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE183 17420 bytes
SHA-256: ede83b655d5ae09102c6c5ab89214f304c0f3e1a4d896f62c95c0434a13cb049
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE0 10236 bytes
SHA-256: ee9c3dc1e908f032f404e20f3575b6f1071a92486fe5b66348f282b0872e5d52
font_02_sfnt_off000125b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1