Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbdfeca2b614b799…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-10-11 09:38:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 97dff993a1251f5d8cfdad9fa2feecee SHA-1: 39c1d7a0ad31d0d966159df3a5832388a0c6082c SHA-256: fbdfeca2b614b79986497fe2847aa8eee389608a65b42f31c44ea48ddbc45614
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress instances or disposable domains. This pattern is commonly used for phishing or to redirect users to sites that host further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lnk+file+structure PDF link annotation
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92157102272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/gipabopumagakadipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozalosofazomovavilokixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/4160690288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33948706218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7821b4f6e09942443d62e7cb2e4e26a/damizititafurejodozenikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymvii.com/admin/upload/files/67613103043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modra-skola.cz/userfiles/file/10920083816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/35481789232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/nitorumazolumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/37865950982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/90610425247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145be795735a---83471372367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chungangroup.com/uploads/files/202109300846519676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozuzijukudufiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161600a3cc0978---86994551602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/99168519434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/zetarolasuzidivakogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/gasosipejugokomugijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b0aed4957---sipuwamuwepulozimegoxiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10240123168.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_off0000d3ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FF 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 1651202587abb1cb5af4faa7cefed60599c9df0bc9bced08b9842f98000fc338
font_01_sfnt_off0000eafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFA 19392 bytes
SHA-256: 65b4058a55734d0b89e687a78ab8cd8c9b4b589f4ebe4063c8a73c1045b10749
font_02_sfnt_off00011dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1