Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd816729c2eeba34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 01:05:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: aa49e5f4063ee9178e61dcf390f64e25 SHA-1: bc4a8e8bb9fdf0b6369a641f3e30d0841729cdc3 SHA-256: fd816729c2eeba347b67fbb4c68a717f2f00299dd5a06220571de73560352d01
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, including those pointing to WordPress upload storage, suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad479a292e8ea11c6bc9ed68d08656e7/43975772807.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/98921081114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/watuzitoxolenabiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faceconnects.com/ci/userfiles/files/wuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlvkmhn8scmcplgoifasblmp6e/wufoloxifodizisiboronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2dc2c001a26fcdc97495150be2e23eb/54448741363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevelascofamily.com/clients/11614/File/28290040424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1937123521---bukobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6235522e71f0bbcb986ab182ace28d91/zusisedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/57503648400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e475c2c481---60719436214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae115bfd58---7468715186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aabfc4cfa53a0eaa2f83e593eb9c0ca/46503247980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0759d48b7265d865a0680c822af6966/14674903783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/47584024687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c368db42ac7---93830354299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0188d1bfb1---46527611942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608530bf7b588---gijepununefilazuvefogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b734ebb1551---68662083050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95819469958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r38vu8oubtjfkb7pfsgm89khnr/54179477932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/texigogasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=find+two+rational+numbers+between+andPDF 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_off0000d1de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F0 18348 bytes
SHA-256: f5a442b2dde8a1f24a8e5c724e3c0f2257d42cd5b6718722499ff72651cfc9cc
font_02_sfnt_off000119e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E7 10712 bytes
SHA-256: f078bc65d15a70728f08da3943e79d650513e4270a462b183c4603ac01f9e794