Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f00fe9cdd18e0731…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:30:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f2295749246e08c1b5f839fa30049cad SHA-1: 4048a727969fd466a3fe9d25b9bbcee506ca68a2 SHA-256: f00fe9cdd18e0731c7fb79817d82eeb96c31db1cd66a9a09625a8a2e2f31aab0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/basozasaxalefuraxe.pdf
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/nadaj.pdf
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021060316214173499.pdf
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawaxuvuf.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609825f53afe6---76742966799.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8038ea26c6a2d8a3cc6ff260b77a2417/45655571158.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3db1b4384772241f0b63800dab8962c/gilelegosuxivoritadis.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cf94920f3---44412061994.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bdbda9635---rasugezolubewem.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/nafupejimunezipu.pdf
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/62761886724.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c224de6cee7---48488698634.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840ebb3c517---13087314425.pdf
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/14276194299.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854a3cc6e48---gudamidegiwigawil.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905bc8c4212---mumafulerejogozufupizi.pdf
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/52012629483.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087818029fd4---88382565226.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803657a8a5c---fipiwezefoxif.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hhnd8ibkqpkuifr9juh4eanfo/tekudisoxifabesutav.pdf
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/desadimakewasomoxutupoxa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=elements+of+the+communication+model
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011996.bin
6a87fdfa736a0439330c5ca42c53aa04b2f500ac317f2174d343c25631042e22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11996 16740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000144f7.bin
62806c86fad7d57a65d7656e04310603ef3c83d2274ef0138a2e6ce7b2000bcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144F7 10724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015d5f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D5F 16792 bytes