Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbdd5585c4aa7d92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7f4fe5d7e5500815e095019f30252dd5 SHA-1: 52fe7bf32d66b8fa92a4eb7ac931d721cb2e5edb SHA-256: fbdd5585c4aa7d9271df7a5b0b78873b3fc079b865c031044b83f034d9f9daa5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for malicious redirection. ClamAV and an ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of these links and the detection results strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/42955440623.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/wevorepedinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/4060261961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturpix.ch/cmsimages/file/26691960130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xopevelabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140840b953aa---gawilosezuwonebower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df29d4564d---4141250494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/vamemegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614636b8e39df---wubexider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/18416384191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614684db47d52---bifezomirolujurabuzisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobeton.by/pics/files/86216977689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145b25c86e13---96881216482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/5005481329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucsokszekszard.hu/images/news/file/fajokemodogedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/xigevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/zesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bcdba5f5160cf1b10ab3e609a73979d/84219801560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/xemizujuxenutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagi.hr/files/96453042962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xizibupafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f07d67a138---10796269736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puniruxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/54007149700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/37245978265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/libav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+streaming+borutoPDF 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_off000131d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000149e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149E6 18400 bytes
SHA-256: 10e741c33e1bc5f67cd8da029d1c1b1907090059626d13d8ac2f40580547960e
font_02_sfnt_off000179b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179B3 10620 bytes
SHA-256: d1b7676b8509b6f249583aaa8dc786be54241d3644b025cf2408bae0664fd408