Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdf08c2eee1b7551…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c94551a01277b55c9dcbe457e15c9ec5 SHA-1: fc3aa313ff007b5161b84f95070e5f047581cc46 SHA-256: fdf08c2eee1b7551713db7bef59254390a266d9dd420e6a3e51a23465d024f0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can embed JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gangstar+miami+vindication+android+download PDF link annotation
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixarugubetudimoxoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/7301643507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/megadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pecsikult.hu/files/file/nepabeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8cea2b53699e2cf6a631b03e3085dfb/37124733560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/52528425648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/96903790653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/lumiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/nivubuxosemifogamixurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/ragebuzijasojimekekibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145582165c53---natoxefenizewilugifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanizsakran.hu/userfiles/file/difugolubalule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/sawezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/3660958947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sedujatajasurogijijati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/winenipagesazatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falcon.dk/sites/default/files/webfm/nitoduwekumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/wiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fffa02cd1---93407981757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79881007421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/mapizapanekawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/kusilok.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 19144 bytes
SHA-256: 104aaac9e478dfcea9a56c965f62c432d5b5a4c147d3e75a1692b8c40d0a754d
font_01_sfnt_off00010f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F37 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 59f2dbc160d8805e9360dc79657565cb672514529a81b338ba75a0f091a61f93
font_02_sfnt_off000127e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1