Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd2dfc7ee667d843…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c745a2d0dc023a0ff00c319d846ab685 SHA-1: 195246a08f95330fd249d3e8e21d4d09e6b35ce2 SHA-256: fd2dfc7ee667d843a1dfa19704ed6b609bad9cfff202d2aa22a285d17f2311c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a common technique of using link farms to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://premium-house.uz/images/file/ziwimefeni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381a454bde0---56358807268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613428eab66db---15020238161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarupukubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog/file/jogewomuxuguruzubofifobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/68553493644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtravel.clickis.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_5006940C8BA48938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37898990779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8877165190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a98ca8bfea03f079cc2e599133f977/14455442683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crbz.ru/userfiles/file/92644994792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210902214459743532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441ef713710---63791134592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/14194243471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5209793d0abade4d7e8a976f56063b8/21873307088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210918192146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatujuxenunijanufise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/kuboxezenafafuxuteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/bukulukedifufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/53037178785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/duxaluwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/2128286543613af3a619a0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrichmond.com/uploads/files/gepezomopabope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356f4cde5e2---4559751035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=best+vue+component+libraryPDF 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_off0000e9de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DE 11008 bytes
SHA-256: fc177b37acc53f2721483956ca841a27a944c3ef58fe3e63ae8483b1502ba752
font_01_sfnt_off00010347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10347 17988 bytes
SHA-256: b2715a41f8e68d97992d447206a1c874e39e2f8b1de9d3b171fa3123e865bfca
font_02_sfnt_off000131b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1