Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd9779d16b90cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9fc56da27bd5632e85f2beadc6d1bc34 SHA-1: 12bd65255abacceb21b3680cd85e67b869873a7b SHA-256: fbd9779d16b90cc4feeab09047de3c52d09098c4ffd4ef393e834eb23d804f9b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, a common tactic for distributing malicious files. The presence of a 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic and a high ML score strongly indicate malicious intent. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan, further supporting the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/23064021779.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://surinmajestic.com/phya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepixowiwiwugigolanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/84006601161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2109180154286742519e0isjb01cvt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12waktu.com/contents/files/10825223797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/gudogamose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146d1f841af6---kuwurevamedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/kavotojazepuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce6c2efdd71346301cb355628abdee7a/31493853707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/lefutira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazolizesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/68727275350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130db2d135ad---vujamudanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg5pe39oai70jv2b3cagidc6nl/madogiwajuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/55602541765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/biminaletopedexevoxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/88104660401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54700161268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15084115036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/zovisiwudalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/36157099934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents/files/nokabogoxuteleruwisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=american+horror+story+season+1+episode+1+freePDF 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_off0000e037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE037 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84E 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 2a8ee2e5b2ec134a079ff0f154c7baa01ab9cf0e4f0d2db8ebd21476e85efebd
font_02_sfnt_off000111b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B4 18956 bytes
SHA-256: 6e508740d317b998d55b0899111320d0cc7c9e966349035e02fce5f6793d1f7e