Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb3c136e9e90cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 80dbbf087d46468fff884fb4678cb460 SHA-1: 6ca035d43f2f7643aadefaaab99bb464eb8f97a0 SHA-256: fdb3c136e9e90cea32ef02621f27ca7f459446198c0c92ed69777de9c88d3605
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute or obscure malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs supports this, likely serving as lures or redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9794

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 http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3om4tl1hrhu2iuvivtn0eqqn1/64655323929.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/57650163920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/sexizejawinalafolilavikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa92cc5694---vawobaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f1cf9af5b---44648795962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/tigejevone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea23udlnjlujj6l45hpk68k15/menogupijenedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/zises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78r0bftfk1p1ic1kn5acjt93k6/votoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607253e2de2fc---12185937515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/fesuwenojubivani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/famulugagezevijimedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5k6ojgjnrqvu3ijhjfi194mk5/58872954482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/dodixavafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3e836f480---lojiwugetewikipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f9ba68189---rojutadedawajuwutivawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c61c71fa5---begupewesatozemisoroxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaqtqvufseja720a8f0jp0goj3/zixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/butinetesexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d128cbcbc3---20061363355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/pakabijutuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/45781892702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p02nopp7kqrb0dltubvpkfoqnf/kujilojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/54556129372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4726921810927950f188e097c748896/xeliwixepokirumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruuetnutucqoke4lf5ep57ca4i/80234341586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=holiday+plus+ielts+readingPDF 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_off00014a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A4F 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 8e53b156ea2c76caae7931b6584ef7744ad7467755daf56b5d5b760bc5f2a894
font_01_sfnt_off000162fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162FB 32484 bytes
SHA-256: 46e13e795dedb9f23f4b26524ed5e664b70f481a837e592b38880a26b31d41da
font_02_sfnt_off0001a0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A0C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1