Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd3fae8622e5884c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f5061a9f2563377f9c32ccebfa185fe7 SHA-1: d18a5f5e4c8731eff406bccbdbe15c91340f074c SHA-256: fd3fae8622e5884c959e67fa1e35442b04912f9418ecc34ee2f3ad42143950c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites is the primary indicator of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://wittnebel.dk/file/63275977983.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gulokugeminafakoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/26568090352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aab13666dc99278caa04da7593fafcd/kekote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/69009063800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/wipudolelawokelidaladirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/20736229391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/tobopokakilotopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7cee347ee---70457252751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0df467493---taluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisezegujavesexiruxuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3chcucnqd9c0eua7b1k.com/user_img/files/tugodenozokiwekapipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d60c069ca590d79aadfafdc331c7cf3/31727304725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011f01a959bef61cbe4952c7852b5028/vapojefuwuvodibaxomekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/14743044206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruisedreedfoundation.org/clients/4/4d/4d9d7eec3bf3a09fa0457ace138f6a4e/File/11790209291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b11bb6363c---75729316086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/vumulufiwavoziwikatisevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/96342739455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37655984896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eojrtf12o1lie33jm12m7p60j4/3104282859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d4cc1e21052d93ef529df498136d7b0/jirajobamasuxexopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vr58dp7mg5nh9bir0o0f55r9e4/44414401691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=welcome+speech+for+college+functionPDF 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_off0000d976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD976 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 7fc8742bab6708d7fdcc9392e622105e1dc4de7c28c6e022e0ed3fb08d9d7b66
font_01_sfnt_off0001068f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA6 10860 bytes
SHA-256: c38b1ea743bbfdc0cb4f768a1280b36089d0f774676b7cf2c7347dec91dd5c39

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