Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbe947a3e9273b45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7c0c7440f18a0de5f55f178dd0c5da06 SHA-1: f0ebb8d1bc63b322e895421aaddc6269870d03cd SHA-256: fbe947a3e9273b456057911ef052b440f91c8ffb2cd6c450d90a5525e392307c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to phishing sites or downloaders for further malicious payloads. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a792f150fe---lunawazunopapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05d5e307b0---58064954553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ffbf6f1e3d---92385912960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97239046313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94135dffa7fa2bb479e51d194a77bc06/71423499956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91974539412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de5c8ee273---6024168614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17183ec133083dd8ba9b596a866278cd/66154774106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be34d3f326c---xenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27db90681803a65502036f7069980bc2/pigifozazakulofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639e80106553fda9d62d2f10880e33a2/tevukedafukukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/noxofevoliruduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22b0334c0e---69164143467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607885cb29800---42352252208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b621ba04b6209067d4e295710d24a89d/fiwanatebevuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505082130442320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319aad840dbe4d62a4794459da74fb49/1547763391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/sazizipovuroroxatasofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m4mt1asm7bvf1adhta3i64e8k/vatedagipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/65486074382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/serebizoregovijodoroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/4528720727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e7362b5f3---15747017712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=angry+cat+eyesPDF 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_off0000ef97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AE 10244 bytes
SHA-256: c963b0e074fbd4cbcf157e22d5910626c11d50d258116386edf3f459ef8e5b23
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE4 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 8ba7fe8efe5314ebe8c5ff1ead730ede86f5d522051677b5b812a7489cf024e1