Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd243166498cefad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-01 04:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 22c291616a1b23d65834e4bffcc333c7 SHA-1: c989189fd635a4778c9147a3fe0e24423acb07ea SHA-256: fd243166498cefadd5c87c1ac9bc1c33b41535eaff67e62b71ffc9d87b04a0a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of 'utm_term=price+volume+analysis+excel' in one URL suggests a potential lure for financial-themed phishing or SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7472cdfc3301d6e150b2c7b175cd0ce9/85460160331.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/17000854022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51e0a1c99509449063461650caa94c06/pulagapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/17796165849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812908c1d07---10518442725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b01962b2b7accf53231350a999996d/79543643619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d8e6c9c584ea0394a95fa15fa08e95/popekarabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigapilar.com/upload/files/96147074988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/31289839830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/zagomovazuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/91667006538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/10905435116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5092c0d5f2---dinagowutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c961a8f508---kexekilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/folokeledosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fca2a0d7dfb67eb2785c1a7275089c2/kazuziwisipofuxuzetakewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/todoribepuredefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46279fecd9098fe401aabd18741066fb/12809876240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/51452011438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gliqq9vj6p6tvcfuc0s6r0cr5i/5281900970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/puxaxabetokotekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/gigotovepusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/jufono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tnqid0ia008snsmabscf4esh2/vizukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=price+volume+analysis+excelPDF 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_off0000f0ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E0 16452 bytes
SHA-256: 571bd7b6f0eb9d5ae033eebc299c9bb3e7a383a4171ca42f703226ed6a715f45
font_02_sfnt_off000133be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133BE 10676 bytes
SHA-256: bcaddd19ae1dcabe865eb945515b97ddd0aa03f7f51eb6643293577b593dab3f