Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fae3bce51d4ff3fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-10 04:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03fadf46839df582f00739f2f1a777fa SHA-1: 47412e96df52c2a4c23f47d94a2c8e0a2f9ba5cf SHA-256: fae3bce51d4ff3fa276d368b301cfdb3d3bb609be8d98a776d6285026bd3eeed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded links likely serve to redirect users to phishing content or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/jitijoxepolowavoro.pdf
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/911bi6l9dod40a6puspjo7dg93/figekigifitet.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erkhts62dgbbk0sa5a37vtlb85/fodisofo.pdf
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/78230329451.pdf
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/wofawedufedekibukosode.pdf
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/wogoxi.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/94500796605.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b68c2a19b---zazavabepoguwif.pdf
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/bixemegofozivi.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fdd34cabb---11781978858.pdf
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f2f201652916c7150a30a3902adcad/7547432212.pdf
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/bejagofilakaremu.pdf
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90892982411.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b842442bcc---segowaludigatasumumi.pdf
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/tikafuxirara.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/fekawunogakixofusupofur.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40e10b0be5---67287122581.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/fujumolepuzoxajej.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fecc9ce199cab12c0d1b8ff0916d2ad/wuxibake.pdf
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/84849349451.pdf
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/76200713155.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39056f6cfda4b5089149c3448489c08e/56892906578.pdf
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/zijaguwupogumomilemujef.pdf
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/54135681612.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=lewis+acid+and+base+reaction+examples
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3ea.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfb.bin
00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFB 16140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011178.bin
90d19c6b7780e1885ca7f3614475b2984887ba45faa22be7b78dd7e665b4e7df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11178 10960 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012ab8.bin
ddc0d49535d23a7e38b46e3b9fde096766a1e644505c2c61d2ed838938d988b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB8 16776 bytes