Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbda41aa85ee7c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 401ddd6b65e40c5d9e25ddf68f0bfaad SHA-1: 56bd3e999fa6a53dfad70808655a506926b804c2 SHA-256: fbda41aa85ee7c5fcdfc83abff4d0981ae0e16dc049f95984c7201e696f4928e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that lead to external websites, many of which are designed to host or redirect to other PDF files. Several heuristics indicate that these links are part of a link farm, with some pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+anime+for+beginners+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://didula.com/img/file/purejizokakemopusidido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/41131932264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopitipodepagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/jifamatuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613607b1a3651---8160229604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/34041903872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/nuniwuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/74506501232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/47852619667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difigomujuma.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cef4a3270e---xijuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec92e8afd5---49583599794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97006321035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/80953472240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilnius.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/3833998805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaenen.de/idata/34439367219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7843a35ad---75710522256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fadizizefezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enjoyvaltellina.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95307377219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/wubikilejolebuzotefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/64412396140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/pepipemigekufoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/19973732659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stormester.no/files/file/37022734151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/larewusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/21024426897.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_off0000dc27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f43e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43E 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 84b4a0f37837292e7b4443f0313bbefe8a2856a1ba889898831cc2d7678421c0
font_02_sfnt_off00010d64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D64 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 462dac6fc511ec71c30cff2ea20670dfad9d64bf26079ab1dd483359f1b9f56f