Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbdb9a426a102407…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:57:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 878bdf4a2366cc16ed73744339edc32a SHA-1: 21caf637c8eeaa97cd50611d780e036da9a1a0fe SHA-256: fbdb9a426a102407548999ac4c89a6dd96f0527039bec5fb262e2764d3d7200b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm on potentially compromised WordPress sites further supports a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://leguido.net/files/73179782557.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613714e2f304d---42810352663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dadf6f04c---41274092342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/wedafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupozurajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/dupiripiligizilemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/68926618443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/rajiletiwevikafukozagusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/88784502188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da305f314f55b23cca91b16901ebd3b8/95269892491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/murukerulusepimumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarigol.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/11082335144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/pufowixazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/88180342714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbjfrfu372729mdl6m7cn21gf7/bugofururelegekuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onroerendgoedindex.nl/images/uploads/melixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/54474910447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3805699912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/bikimabiwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/kuwaziwibinugagufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e40ef9f6a7---fefigobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/japodetapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/52583365398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/lusoropelujalupiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=custom+font+in+android+studioPDF 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_off0000b848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB848 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 4043e93f8514fe4432eefe50a44ef28a2d1b67546da3deef8ace158591a5dc80
font_01_sfnt_off0000e210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE210 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA27 10468 bytes
SHA-256: ddab0f0dc96f359519caa1e3ce5f764c7ed9a74b7189d7ccd87ccd2c7c49437e