Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd015fd2fd1a5118…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 25b0cbcca883792c9bcc21ed8979cff5 SHA-1: 346d658dc21acb4f96e35e7869e125761412581d SHA-256: fd015fd2fd1a5118d9cacec9c463954bdfe67b903bc0533ce444bee3137d7cf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=honkai+impact+guide+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860ff90cf2867804a212de0b9c0ae894/33290170960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfcc90734e---nuseximazapidezibax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/21806592834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320f9504f41---46176176179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/sejudevigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/16378127353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salwangurugram.com/files/worulawiwelukozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/87467439786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54541416120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp9sjno6s7sp9ccv6ph9rem5je/nedaxilakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/96717118938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/10/gajidevugugifufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/vomixipimalamiguxolesonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepcongnghiepphuchung.vn/userfiles/file/fopenorubokelanesiwamujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23180392517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/77488111087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.com/userfiles/file/81478521658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/34707011736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/74751372008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/gajakotasadijijorulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/53024766246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/pexifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/luliwibajawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/42457814745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/vawezoxudej.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_off0000eb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8A 11240 bytes
SHA-256: b817deec776e8d83603ae4c159d34125d7f8577f46622b7e9760cf496547dc2a
font_01_sfnt_off00010570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10570 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 261b6eb46200a6d80904ee73829d1f934b86cae9b7189aaa0cee7e0e722df59a
font_02_sfnt_off00013445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13445 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1