Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbed991b721e5fc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 15:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a7f315ff2af8f3d0cc6122deb7e58f11 SHA-1: a576ae8ff5d17c7eeb0c7ada67213ed4b0d9d59a SHA-256: fbed991b721e5fc0f27bed7a46b1c61bb74c8e38583920e518ce58ad0debc809
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f1be3ae33270f25432be3e32c7485a/dukodup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekenazoraxadinikovofibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/8879311446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/wefizafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93aa3b8f21e40605dbad374a6fd097fb/bijixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4og8gefp2c8le6bqa4alv6nd5/felokubirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae325da1de---duwidusuzodokirife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/lafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a622ce0c967---87513916016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/51564763650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790b9122ec8---75326296966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084381e9be61---midurim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9d2b4ea15---jejelenagonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/46187549604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssujaxchapter.com/clients/83257/File/lerabovizisabasidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/manedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suttonoakfarms.com/clients/880813/File/joxuziwavixosewolajawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/guxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49339288a737005ffc00353032ba924f/44440453197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097495b31bc9---lusumerezebuxuxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0a6b88e678abcb466538a823a47782/xugenusujidigidexese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d311539be---64410552116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1961.com/clients/878968/File/77325665285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/34486454551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=geeks+and+nerdsPDF 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_off0001040e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040E 17172 bytes
SHA-256: f5a2cd7e0f9864c75a2b99bc0c9eaeca8775a2062c75c8209dec062bdfc5c86f
font_01_sfnt_off00013100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13100 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14917 10016 bytes
SHA-256: bc93aa03488487dd7a3cc6197d781d14bc11a0779f42d58db6921fb2713728cf