Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb66562e15503a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:17:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1b13e5db72fad385cd4c5b134a58ada6 SHA-1: 0e5af55d48b6267e6d1a7f490d721c203d84b8b5 SHA-256: fdb66562e15503a83d14f6e5bc06001b92c61c945c05d4a7f600dc40e9418d3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=banh+mi+thit+heo+nuong PDF link annotation
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94323b9538bf42d68a2bef7c9d320b83/56804376900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdi07nq2epa2f0ll8dvc4fdss7/lajuraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad96da26ef3---zozisekalikowajibomabuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f55e81c8c2---51584878016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e11fce9b594577d20604e276d94413/80382203012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcf6a39dcdf---resox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b60b034e2ff6ace831a578dc0993ede6/werutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/rilamawifaxoxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31fb216d99c204a476ecd098d92529b6/gefogowututi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/betugapovijojuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasnowosielski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37000982419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/xewigewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/zuxiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/kurozibodupedixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210724024113599752n9gsy3fck20f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/41406031675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/duxizekufimukuxitufatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/22117211009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd497463f4f76c03d9f3334dce24a4d7/93817915675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e34ec9b68e8921d6e334f2e9433b5a2/vuwajimitedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/83686861663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/besowawukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/25864850107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/91902118122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc0b39d3e66---visatiruzufabigoxulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e33b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33B 23640 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae88e691243bbe35db94661a44335ee1c6026e70d4ef11c0cd41d8354bf523b
font_01_sfnt_off00011f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4E 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 9625fb6854ec2d6da67d41fc4433527bc8aa89d45786af196e45ba74024aca9e
font_02_sfnt_off000136d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D7 10392 bytes
SHA-256: b358a6b5f577b52840bed2ea88110bc3f79b5181b84629f8e303a3803cca846d
font_03_sfnt_off00014e2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1