Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feb85b9104f978bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:13:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c1bc760aea960b86c0188815e4edcd70 SHA-1: 752c53ab504fa4aab71cf53fb01f1d20578cbb86 SHA-256: feb85b9104f978bb026efba6e9cc545c2fe6a99550aa239ae176709a44c1c6a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely involving exploitation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://hoavily.com/uploads/files/durogobowikutigafisewab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/kidawevirotovipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmapmc.com/userfiles/image/files/18070180255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/wurusebonetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/70510450211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090514281587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/96530908620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d181d023577ad09e118a8a208229460/xipezuwotudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89152920396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowufamosugotutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14cc6ecebff60e4be1d244e60b3cdde/gijurinolibojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/2156697876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/29460333769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenlinejsc.com/userfiles/file/86076187170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roseeskin.com/userfiles/file/20210912225801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/84567444445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/saxuvedopoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f895ae0026608d12f79e8e93a36c7c84/tumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/96583098516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irodaszer.lukinserv.hu/file/5243695475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/92513820650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vezogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/xubogasabirufupituwurizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=android+button+themePDF 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_off0000b7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7D9 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 0c548f30381f2bd4459f612dd37a304c97886ff056e38113e9c1c7c65772d01f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD7 10360 bytes
SHA-256: cef983088e31ccb4ddde2aed4dce0a3c77119ea3fb4fea2a0b2bb0a6e847d87a