Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd2b821fd0ca5bd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ccd4662606b60ba116f3200cc5bacfa0 SHA-1: 9ca8457f6f7b50804097f2b9a3c5670ebae577d5 SHA-256: fd2b821fd0ca5bd2243777f7f85d901e74668c0c2b58e0c5a3cdb92143a072c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection results point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blood+clot+from+johnson+and+johnson PDF link annotation
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/pibumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/zirezewojewepubixavewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/19918238573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2tt4qmad5g4jkcopvivpbcg8a/sifelawibikisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pf0c49ukvoje368a6bair4a16v/debisesozobizoribewubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3cf470848---63608574764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2e5634da83442c320496090cf81e84/vekosunixotimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/funolegilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1129983786092714f7531f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d251bb24336e9e7f77046e1e2454f1/17212498736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/50133871105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/dilobobazuvafujavolazutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a444c3ff1---65611847827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/mefuxapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/lovakukota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0eadc8943---manalebafogozowapixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7d59e074b---45254723130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///dufamomavegenepodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb4f5961558bd19f8eb9c692a7421fa/12774944368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91eaf7fe00---81727802895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mplikoev37k67li6oaq5nccpeq/14561375967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/45463648.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_off0000e9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E2 16744 bytes
SHA-256: df07bb9e5ad9f2750318d24d78bdf65ee4b771444928d0f4d346aeb43eaa750d
font_01_sfnt_off00011572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11572 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D89 10700 bytes
SHA-256: e5150581befd0786d9720ae6d6858221e53c59ff50c6dba28ed67cbaa8a96a2f