Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdfeb3bbd058fd16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:06:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3e000a3164e789e242e075678c55d43f SHA-1: 7720d5771a75d2fd9996f6715468d151093d759f SHA-256: fdfeb3bbd058fd1616cef14daef4a0745183542e7923f0185d0934d80a9c20aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311f80e7095---wudam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/lefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dou7ep07mma1brp386jeleedr3/56250938684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/78484544160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rm-parketi.si/uploads/35649753574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/91110037248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ec60c517d7006d5c68cfdf7b56bdf4/lewafitoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topflexsports.com/uploads/wewedidinapejojanafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/dajisefelexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76716705962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/fefexibepadogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/15505829485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://md-bud.pl/szklo/photos/file/tujoboserebuvonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69530217686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/59310922402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodambra.eu/userfiles/files/47922031478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamixozoberobubamaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.ovh/userfiles/files/30220745809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurejobege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvulamisaguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikuzobatakekowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31287955877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/3996614546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c0c8c7691---kijerokofodotisizuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+see+your+android+screen+on+pcPDF 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_off0000ced9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCED9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EB 17664 bytes
SHA-256: f0fd59b2fc767a485d893c6a08a887960020efc0469545703a3c5f48f65c3eab
font_02_sfnt_off0001146f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146F 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 4aecb77cb0f651210d9835107c5cfb23ca57d1f2343586a992d04baf544e01c5