Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbe5697474735115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 06:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5b0d56c97a69af077ed66f59271980c2 SHA-1: 74dddd3468215dd060d56d2d9a3a3ee481ab18cc SHA-256: fbe569747473511553e3d23eb9c9ccbefc5bcde02ac5f29ab320a3b8b594417e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution intent through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplos+de+proposiciones+subordinadas+adjetivas+especificativas PDF link annotation
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/45209166966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/riturepuvijavejipizoreduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/12448436862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fad8951fc12---86059882682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mi7h6if7d1uhgk5upd9k29tm7q/tuzimaduditovugedilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccvdkb27pfp40ro7k841j5ad0l/velisageremofoboseri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/konowozexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90586410255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/45798914155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/selolerikotufurirejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/tafutadaweka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1230e90bfb47fff10db242fcc411e934/nebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/panozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klccpa.com/userfiles/file/mubajilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077468adc093---60373033165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/xawuvovirorulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021062603381883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104eab167a3870160562781f5cd48e16/88282680961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14fc9c90da340abb9197948abd06ebd6/40007206615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411e4c6efcfdc97fa48ac274e35a925c/66086078235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gr2p9cvgb5c6ul0grmkp3sqvp0/63977534858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/2131091912.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_off0000ed2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10543 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 4dd8c5381a152f91dfea315ced4de009dc614702f528e5881281baae4fc5a373
font_02_sfnt_off00011f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F36 18880 bytes
SHA-256: ced484eb4fe8e01f04957ce00335642932f06f810ae36fa16670d6cbf14d4050