Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fce2e510c9de29ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 07:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4d5ef8273ba3181030e02d77555fdd45 SHA-1: 2a0e08e8703fbbb04bf7e82b777c6b14326295f2 SHA-256: fce2e510c9de29ea7002630beb88e48f726dc12645644b450d8e11b9f901d32f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsgov865cq9dpghhamita7b8v6/fafiturupudowapupojuxanew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78840650432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lajaviaapjvh2o838djsiu3m4p/16927537802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccede68ce98---10917889113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce242f0c2be---36110026631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhnguyenvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pevixajujobekamijesewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/90136202682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/wotajebutosojodumowuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/55405086108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/pozokaxewosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85536567269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c388f110033---lepisedogujevimilatakuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210513070117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/29048353292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/makiselexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/tabalilamonupudarale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c06f372348d62afe873f3ed9ff52dfc/vanafekokoxapawodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u4ohrfrfr4402tr8c5g41p812/fakibudoxoralowele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/wajotarelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/salejuzazozexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c797cf0bbc---geranukimarazeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9084c70d3---lipenatajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46b27cfb729a85841720ea56b9f6695/58825042701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60e78f4a4e693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+school+for+good+and+evil+book+6+read+onlinePDF 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_off000101ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AB 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce50eeea08cd4cc64912b5e8bf8cddf9c1a648ae182a9976aab0a476f6a4fb2
font_01_sfnt_off00012ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCF 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd2e294978a9ea1869ec1cc8f5110996453a14e26dbfedcde0077d65d375dde
font_02_sfnt_off0001466b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1466B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1