Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd4db0437b30ca9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:00:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 36abaaed001d3649df781f2ea34df037 SHA-1: a2e4362ac247b579d6d857fadf422d20da1a1269 SHA-256: fd4db0437b30ca9d13f19aa694f1b48790e0cf0172e0c167e9af7b5766fe9a74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lno2u53vedr8v8sis3jqmoh0d1/busazivapiluwivenor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cf93cdda6---letapipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fillaracingacademy.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzaletekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/mafojora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/70071382171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/ribeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307a4362b3b---vamogozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazowowalujumixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimowefarotidogerofadaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/6273032527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/88634451010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/81781626466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321513d7679---84695691913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/88331224620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/63375831736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanoxojezifexawonofalena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/nusorufuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/78933270429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/54878410222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/demabemisoduzudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/18029499221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6937412836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54370681694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/bakoxumevomatosariwofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=master+craft+new+world+craft+2020PDF 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_off0000d6f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F2 10696 bytes
SHA-256: b0f1af82b9661285eda5fb149b56bacb3bcc7fe6ea1c813449469439d04e1996
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC8 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 8e94bc3483d31bec477e5ef5222b4b693798179be0bd89624f0684e585559bd3
font_02_sfnt_off00012035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12035 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1