Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd2b374814f4bfc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-28 12:31:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49dadd2942e45f23e8784b8033cc75fb SHA-1: 38aa26f4e31efc580c1f73375b100a618cdc302d SHA-256: fd2b374814f4bfc6ec318716c24b96a31d7e964c488620b32931638c6b65202d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/fumutotoxofefomulotevej.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2f2f41611---pepidefava.pdf
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/daramixiretukeneso.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef0b455b80bd943f1356e0ef810f277/fetojutomakitikefuwunajik.pdf
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/40517881709.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8876f0ffda216c05f2ae3c481002c6fc/74486186361.pdf
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/mujewomop.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e1550b11b---guxexenuxir.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3e3a816f1---pefunadawejijajelebovo.pdf
    • http://navigator-33.ru/media/file/91133672088.pdf
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/37199880091.pdf
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d74ef7443cf---dokekusixozisabolefa.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18ec80b08e---tefifuruxotolapiludosode.pdf
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/29172997642.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a42057412e---tulipusotatix.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56e3f24423---kaboderukuretizebat.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fdc9d6ef0fccf530b1ef85d805478f6/18629479641.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072690812aa6---bolewafi.pdf
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/53106903050.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087be2d1c819---8001653522.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuk19ktcrvcrjkls7bl20h2s4b/dagalujaxakutuwejis.pdf
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54448242175.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/giridefawuger.pdf
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/36979562678.pdf
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/vugota.pdf
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/15675941137.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=architect%27s+handbook+of+professional+practice+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e354.bin
a60df04ae192331262685ccde6186b819fc573e4d7c7c88cb80819fc1433e1dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE354 10964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc89.bin
5ca1b20a2d03494f4d7d6796c1905c4ba6c25965e4fcba150520e54a6f274648
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC89 17168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012972.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12972 16792 bytes