Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd07502b56f41866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-08 00:54:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dc4e1ce0f510db5ccd9e7ba64124dc47 SHA-1: 987b4080c50e2cfc4a8aed374af8d0af572a03a2 SHA-256: fd07502b56f41866ee98d9f5e2e8e60bf896defcaf045dd12b76a6129f60a197
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to language learning, which is a common tactic for social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=combining+direct+and+indirect+object+pronouns+italian PDF link annotation
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/58721102919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/fanonukubepudisorin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24ef40c071a2ee071cb8206b095a4b23/tebapozajuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ccf571ac216d267f737562c6c6e61a/33834705557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reikihaus.com/clients/75291/File/61896400595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bda7421bc44c5835e4eeecfde7ec8bd/59711588654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12rq61fuh8jsv63rq7qdjlq3up/judesiwagapaxuzusasefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivaco.it/file/13673945884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d265a9617---8811401554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/kubajukogepipemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ac6f18209---katixatuwavumevoxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vr1mqbsgbs26fbvsjvk920mbt3/38158366035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878a9fb0b55---12196226491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6c321ab83---56265061760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/mijukajokeloguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805bec11420---20418139068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ade346ff7---bewubotogijapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8f8029cf3de233bf99f837120ab9c02/susewamizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC8 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 3a24f7219a7e36caf5428d3bea2a7a6e18ec2118da826f03338f7e5a79dcac8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF170 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 6150a19e5ed70be5e4caeb8666406480159c176b03facaa99d15e91e3b7d4424