Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd5769e219840c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 15:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0d3f9681315af590d0f13495dd0ada70 SHA-1: c4af3bb52861ea2aca49274d07bb63e004b3ef9d SHA-256: fd5769e219840c7250e33936db4d7ac0ebc25a454bbad73577091ab21bb48b7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, with a high ML score. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting the PDF format to host these links, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b38111dd21---76016341336.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ef04b3b8f---91825001100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjlp8ve7p0uv5g13mec0gsosdr/39753634428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/89575110046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4b0318734---39277559116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobenusigadineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/31332149062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwovedole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/rivolirutezule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071696a6db3f---96053266902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/ximemasirizesulajulefuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/77880791031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/dakodujapuvosalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/89667239615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/451118299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/40330631199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/45845437132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/66099322972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d7bde85a96eb01e5e6c1f7c16cf275/36275792738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86fcb97d71ea50c26126d7aa24f8b6fd/marirodazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guv04u6rl5n1rv5npgc3m1vil5/zijizuriboluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibokuwukesevowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd4fc4855c38511a491e05cc9298d9b/najofezazowujubesezusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/26005448821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womivemutuzokefipajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=accepted+density+of+brassPDF 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_off0000fb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11353 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 92bcdfe6ffe4b236f18e1d85b914e90b5f7a297af3c83fceb0f5a9f92acc930b
font_02_sfnt_off00012c2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2C 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 753804c6ccfb4202795600b373fcd6f234d891591dac2decb32feffd8d39b4db