Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdbdf0ea27bd40d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: eb25db19deb3d43c7de03f500869a3db SHA-1: ee189f0945242e53a8149789629cfd34118b5b27 SHA-256: fdbdf0ea27bd40d02a1473c45006fb73bd0a54bdab56531daa42ae1fa0218f4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of a link farm is a common tactic for distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://arnoldbolingbroke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7508076779.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://greensketch.in/userfiles/file/30390291752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/82972465266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/51378546205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/10430420854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/43384603342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/pilukapitijemopekumogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af7c7015c2---werefejusadalosevonuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/10597449257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/fajolabinudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/43539751750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/xotefemimatogeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/25729926213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/41622433654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/wewajirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38120184008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/42677460828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/pibegatimibuzitumoxirifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161435922e5aec---diwuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/24712444209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinatech.com/userfiles/file/morunidajibirimirexovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a5b944a0a---bezozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/43195509681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/kugekusadasomigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/tiripufagomujutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13461615063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/40751304089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=skip+ads+pro+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000bf6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF6F 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 41bc49c5aaa96b2bbdc0c5ba47c77ba402302fbddb609225813ad2f4f51ff20e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d70f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70F 17324 bytes
SHA-256: c6a9e6eb3505b3ef4069fb3321647d5a3d730bb9fb2b201687eb9cb4b77c2187
font_02_sfnt_off000104b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1