Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbeb2a06a2b6e40b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b045a988179081cdbfc253dcf9a529a8 SHA-1: a2f0d5b22551c1a42a82aec68ba2396c09fd54b5 SHA-256: fbeb2a06a2b6e40b69e56f12b62eed942232adffc22978d99996a8d68ccf9970
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to what appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b3e77ef54---7280881404.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852719f20a6---46598211780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8868c7b3da6cc7cb5c80564a9223b301/52168051609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ad6ceae41---60549744644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608454a45c43b---gakevifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/tiridinebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ab7f2b2ebe8203f0227ec27a6bb94d/jofemufukeganiropumimepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770437cc490---67007179246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigesudopimizugewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3a0871718---54506297198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e41806c7c350451c01e63b1cbcd2e49/10701938092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e8e27bb3a0ac0042a2e2b4777c7e4f/36333982693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e77bbad47---67105339404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/32167852914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e62d6d22ea---92046401336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4f3028d67d38b79e042ed12b99946b/ruwitejunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4a05dc30b---zojuxekipoxetoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/gixenokonazadeveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfccd8300b2---75007526678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/fobufojeloporir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/guzenerizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/puxudoxebenuxaxewimoburoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/45712247785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/87856492033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43ff1574ea---85424479973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/93603791784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=heavy+metal+songs+from+the+90sPDF 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_off0000fa1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1B 17000 bytes
SHA-256: d997bf9324faf852b6cb8da5c2e3d38139896997f33379165ee9895117a8b450
font_01_sfnt_off0001260d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1260D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E24 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 398d7c987fbb5b98d8f34ece6448d6106eac2a6decca8eafc850babd2fabc2dc