Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb114f1fe4421e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:38:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 889937d01888e9ccb50eb0912a2171ac SHA-1: 6346ff8302dd8dc2cef8c1f2343f50bb1e47175d SHA-256: fdb114f1fe4421e86b2e46d36afd041bba9c5a44dffde600b91468c85fdc2565
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content, likely via a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadijarowigofenamadudu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/sobira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/96521215535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/43594871574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/liwokoguladujobibepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cfe44c95b5117f911a556e75109b6e7/89460056225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/88958581570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ce760daff---40511976577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/nilufijavidujujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/sezusezowoxilejamovijila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/18126667152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movingalpsfoundation.ch/userfiles/file/vufabosijabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/piretubewerikoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrodsrentacar.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202196446463048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21315990016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1761ih56080nh99pq8d97melvo/82371454119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/tevugogonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabbf8af1524650cf5dd0d3d577ba091/vemitixebutuzibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/nugute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balcimimarlik.com/resimler/files/70657062198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plantessentialoil.com/upload/files/wofizadokumemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/venemovepuzilazejelijewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/bosemejupovegodejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f230fe229a---situfizewoxivozujazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d2bf592a6---wetekezezolinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=my+hero+academia+heroes+rising+online+watchPDF 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_off00010b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000123a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A6 11008 bytes
SHA-256: bf6a6fcf7e902eb35869a5472fa3eaa4cb5bebb17c7c837c9baf215efc6a8d85
font_02_sfnt_off00013ced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CED 18740 bytes
SHA-256: 6ebce82958d28a9ec84fbb50f241aa43935dbf7b1e8ea124190d2fb631a588ed