Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbf624bc58a9136e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b0f5a05d7c4bb54e29724b8e97a11857 SHA-1: e2cb2892ed9a9ed85fc0ad36d0cb5845c281c85f SHA-256: fbf624bc58a9136ebbe2f2356391bda07275096858b6d888a72a28b9bf140f35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via a spearphishing attachment, potentially leading to client-side exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892abbc545c---gavosutizali.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66f39854a6---46232717810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc506f4dacffce24ec4ad98c91c552bd/54944682718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethanybaptistcolumbus.org/clients/75549/File/zadabigavalanupipajojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/48748023616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21uvdl5ob7c7d5nepcdvauihnh/galexuxotepomugawitagesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfj8hl9ajmk3fmhodnnclvg3m4/fovoziroduvufoloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/31929167718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k2plusinterior.com/userfiles/54518441483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6105AC195C79A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47e767b641---34365896096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b41a302e5---729145588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/xikadosuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxosorobukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93325877295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ku3jtu7ddtes1r00on3votapvn/31769412459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjf48454lp3j4c8slfavot6og6/76529734306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/49391379104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/7008508493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109056f24102---57988584299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d0c7a0f8b6e630e9fea181060eee700/52257870131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/tedibabizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/90686630052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/8138172356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/dufiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/xufola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/tisozofuwapokutawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=infosys+interview+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000def3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF3 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 7cb1bfe47a83bf0cc8721172001c40be09370847f4ab0aba5177ebae12592f95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF834 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11046 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 28265da17691755374c0787c2cc047c120478f39b311a48d98bc6b0e69747567