Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcef6bf26aa05cd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:11:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2801cc9dd6334be59edc27c592d93c24 SHA-1: fb4804eeab77a1fdf98a18f6229c1b30273a2f10 SHA-256: fcef6bf26aa05cd18001743e76048384ff50a7ebb217b1e23b5bf3c1b03fcd77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection as a trojan indicate a likely intent to deliver a secondary payload or facilitate phishing.

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.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1256b7ecb96f0318a53f9a2d8f23aa12/9608292550.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/wikegijamivasatenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff5be54027---sujusowewomakenivigodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/zobuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825b8f32b94---97501315904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f744c9a16---72333873232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/16468021063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/66197629783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delurevovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/buxutigikixadefati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092efa03e291---81555497550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c57366241---39846931872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/89248477486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/14679352233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee3e9cfcb6---jegofupejuneleziwopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/06/file/202106030944278382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945a7c272af---20598273724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb96202ce2---vejogefesobomedolepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61365006e334251d9efad73c6bb2b7f2/14313309606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37d51712db---keguvavopupufarovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3492806263ad2fec2703e40078d76408/54968030924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aapih9f356v5d26for10c9jb0h/maxakozibinijirezivuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61a0a19f524bf90764d7c4243304737/93925804450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b086d0e3754---nuwexipotibavapitimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c126dae3726d05c42d1564b700de7f9/38581341985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=disorderly+persons+offensePDF 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_off0000f765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF765 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 363c61f269a9299a405e57deab7449a4c2165c835fa861e66d99e5e340ffd4df
font_01_sfnt_off000122a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A4 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 36ef08f952577dd7efcc7e09ce5ec1b74e87a485627e70f1a1fe6ddc0fb89c3b
font_02_sfnt_off00013a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1