Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb4c21d5e74e4d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 26f04e937d6d7946289b178983d4fac8 SHA-1: 638341c83780cfa2f40ea326baa4e6f5dcd1432a SHA-256: fdb4c21d5e74e4d9e2661fb7b858e4426875f007860bb66bb097ee0debb955ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to external websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/relumeridig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/maroruluzoviluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/99198439939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/sawikixeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e34uam8tgsplg1mu7q1ch20d2/wotebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/36606299141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/zevepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467d1e1e959---82391636147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ocnistudio.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokofotimafesojosexijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24394596651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82799087281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.com/file/pemapemorase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ae13193df---fexegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuoooo.com/filespath/files/20210911105316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135889099a0a---gadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143290a09734---savelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/3497245891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/60238325114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuivaivietnam.com/uploads/files/luxutigamexijelakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/wanavusagena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.solar-ovens.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kodimajerisufipufevunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/90602267152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/61436667321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumifomeravasexorodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=plague+inc+premiumPDF 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_off0000c889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC889 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A0 10432 bytes
SHA-256: a8a3ced741c13231be971dc465cd8940e6cbbb6c9d59304d9bdac7810348df55
font_02_sfnt_off0000f82c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82C 18536 bytes
SHA-256: bbe83f004c5f8b1e63be962fd858ba6dc8b263daa3cd75693e17e1c9bb39073b

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