Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdcb68c5c8b926f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:56:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d0d8a650f9c27e2c665b94c0d2a48e3b SHA-1: 49149cef13df02d674d16a0adcb516ae4d43ced0 SHA-256: fdcb68c5c8b926f1a7fef1f750d52c7639be74f334e39cfd91fa1b35a5e8109a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, directing users to download applications. The 'utm_term=download app on android' parameter in one URL strongly suggests a phishing or scam attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/91171568003.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/10416507426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u44lbgro7io7hhk65nn82pts90/wilebinipepabugajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieubaooncachnhiet.com/userfiles/file/89980813497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/3342780528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/36791321972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6646edb93---31613855903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/vefilonanifozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/nadaximolorepozazigizugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d0674dbc1---77094027514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/94045976743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22bb884c2c652600f375b0e242a859d/lojusakapaporajaruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/betixazadorizatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/665cc0e44252481e66efeb1b5657c285/wowoxaminuzegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/17053831779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/ferumilisawugufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/69545320929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.info/userfiles/files/fudiwabomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pass38.com/images/contentimages/files/62722245214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/34991517215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksdc.in/userfiles/file/41410948778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+app+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b9d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E4 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 84978bd2775aff7459a90c725729680ec8f41d054452948726d5ba49182b141c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC22 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 1570ea66cbc15beead7a55349c0557dd1cade20f04b74f2172c159b0d90b1dc0