Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb05aab83f171d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-10-19 11:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0eafa6779179efb1f100ed05dc8c3c93 SHA-1: 3eee4bda510107cb1e1cd1d1f58dee62d29c3f9b SHA-256: fdb05aab83f171d1620bd46e68d757f3d50d46401aacb451323e2ef89ee780b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://tuinvandecruys.be/file/47550366430.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860dd646b9089d1d07c2725c2ca9d08b/joxiletubobuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electronicaindex.nl/images/uploads/fudumomiwanituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/sefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/37835034146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/zelixilijawoxolatoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhagiatxanh.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/61123087288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukkies.be/userfiles/file/luvisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/tufiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sausalito.com/wysiwygfiles/file/bimugali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takolomagudubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b19v1mb1yi.com/userfiles/file/dasinoduzujeroxelubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426629e09ad---52014124660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/muwinorafinisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151f3657583f---46504350438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presupuestos.pavysan-bigmat.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabekukusisolovigidurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/11092164288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/87882295496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614410604e114---80826149851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fdconsult.qa/public/uploads/cms_files/witizubokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgal.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeluwogivukadukabudogisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c88729bd24a0a6c057d9e708e50fe138/91710350545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d934610e21a0f33e487d0b40497bfc50/44742803109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/jafefojojedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/4dZi1sgP-vI/uplcv?utm_term=%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5+4+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81+1+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B5PDF 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_off0000b412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB412 18676 bytes
SHA-256: c2a29535c94ecd12843fe6889f617c69962dd9ddb1c1fff48196de5e0b4c4206
font_01_sfnt_off0000e31b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB32 11172 bytes
SHA-256: bf25d021bb1b58624f89c9f35ef036bfc8b52d135fc46706715c4e0b8263da77