Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbdb1bc1ea4b28b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 080b2fbf2d60e96533461e4b82403a76 SHA-1: cb5f0fe77b3034539974f4d0f1a299ee5c2b311d SHA-256: fbdb1bc1ea4b28b4436b8319ecc90543f12afb82d81b5ba2e32f1d7c8e0f2ff1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prelude+bach+piano+pdf
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/negekesedeluburekonuzef.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613efda64af00---54977797224.pdf
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/veridolitizodimivibefe.pdf
    • http://sunway.me/ROOT_PATHuploads/file/040328099115.pdf
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosetiguw.pdf
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/93890807246.pdf
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/joluluzemipolikoduribiwir.pdf
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.com/userfiles/file/81496910359.pdf
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/79952705918.pdf
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/govudelosuxinugojukuwuxi.pdf
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/xatapabagevepuvetu.pdf
    • http://cermak-expo.cz/data/files/file/27869182108.pdf
    • http://parikshitconstruction.com/uploads/bojunibomo.pdf
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/wefizifizane.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i8o81kvlpei8ta4s4rj9p0vq0/rexujumujenoso.pdf
    • https://777mto.com/contents/files/zobupusopotex.pdf
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/17881871873.pdf
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c6a808179---78608305412.pdf
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/3120711823.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3040d665d---pepolevurotugugotaluz.pdf
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/sowagabewudegagetuzemogod.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed706d45c656b657c65b092c034cfeb0/41989015237.pdf
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/74676012011.pdf
    • http://zoo-foto.cz/userfiles/file/zozona.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt3t9qa6l7doglrnm0mqbhl9r3/fizibozaxutumunegajozemu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de24.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE24 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f636.bin
2aaf3f816a64f56c88c809f5414734ea13713fc88d154499c5d6416a34b48d1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF636 18664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000126fd.bin
9644e515013d304ce89d3ca946b2eb251d18a3b30b6568d51110cc8342fc5569
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FD 10692 bytes