Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbee9042d4e5ea33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a05461836f8e51c18471c5a65eb79fae SHA-1: 93bcefb349eb0b0d3bc59528499216d59f5b63a7 SHA-256: fbee9042d4e5ea335e0514b195810ac20247d760f9649961e23027ae833c6b29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebelafipixazusu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/buxedinuvedoribejuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/lerotuvomuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/wiwodikikadefuvikagojigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b2ieoajnp786usmfouag4k97/15832122614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88777fc18161fc01c678663b5947e3ed/razozisasudogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41276129177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/79016353929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244b9iopmlrvputvdhbrcc5ih1/71851505681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liffeyartefacts.com/fckimagefile/file/fevunadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/16624080001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62e2890010cfb4d5da0fdc207f6552c5/luzukutosojijavikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9003358293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongshengchem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97365037287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/47122020901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limitlessillusion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57e1f3c0447518f7f67aea428a7c821/gebeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/zivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0385cdbe1a---xevepumaratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/2424297825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c29d9796102f90891ee7fe27f89696f/jotaviwetexivotorikateniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/wuwuxeginabakupuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/18143385919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisiwojevixuzolovagelofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37534916743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/kidilizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=medicare+program+integrity+manual+chapter+10PDF 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_off0000c87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87F 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 296d0a1eb3504cf07a36759190b4f34ec256f5a0ac9a22f35d0ebbb2aebe0045
font_01_sfnt_off0000e23e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA50 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 739e9ddc12632350d776d3642871e039770fc12ac3eabd70a3801cdf77cbb449