Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd1b92020e333070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:26:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f76654b5adb25090e94c222702aaf9cf SHA-1: 389f4ff4a9b83de034becbdf8e49f57461471940 SHA-256: fd1b92020e3330700c74e5562988952923612c139d9c392b21ddbb13107d3c74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or malicious link distribution point. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/zobaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torubofuzenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/34834480360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a28a57d206---dusimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612643a1784e8---53916607469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4983afd62d645617153fe6103510a625/bowomiwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vanbjcgelegv31dvc3ehmdk6go/bamozunovigopekiguwafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71r2n3quj856dtq2v4kdu85k1f/demajobuvofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1ccb479b7ceab1d1743818ddc1e403/xiwatepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2172c63a04dc956160a68448f509a845/57296946813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70a6c9f57899c35c34b0c5787da6bfd/wuwojemupabowirawubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felonimububenukuluxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/62900605401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/58199821088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076559062e4d---vepadifixipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610448970ab83---fivexigoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088000fe0b1e---34720184942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1e92b01b9---10231785704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/1435620549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c16ec04c1903b29654a39e3619a2261/jigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af95d43621---26290677577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d237d42af28545b2496db836f8c6778/1381026443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/defixavasoxilejodubemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/zibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=40l+to+gallonsPDF 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_off0000d9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E8 17472 bytes
SHA-256: d78f7526b875785a6557ec7df18d36af9d8bc66370e3ea73a27275a1ca453197
font_01_sfnt_off00010702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10702 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F19 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 10a15954961ce556691b192422536aca17ddc1d5939e263a53b7ecdabe8a28fc