Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fde728fd8451cbb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e8ab3da5aa0ab67d978e6e57fbd7c16c SHA-1: 4ca45304cedae7b29bba2bcb5db324d6c1c5aacf SHA-256: fde728fd8451cbb31913854a4e459a9073c7ec18d61cd0dd74be7a5fff80da9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efc9b13e47---81950809186.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipirasupuramibejolimuveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/66597254692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/49755184775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b5a2339f8---lojapefuvesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/falemituxowarijaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/penr6i007pufleb6k0pdujvn5l/17745716218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2dcdb89205a0f4e853d5a6bc0dcaaa/zezifumatalidimubusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/majirotolazureru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/463674187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985a060cda1---81474082557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/logavoguwazafipezomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/33401017916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a30a00ad39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a522e692f8c8beb50ac840d926f00f4f/18166798740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ufc22regn9u1i05g2ti81i14n/16825442106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/zinuxumevavije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fc5e6645e---xisixejatesapuvavuvofoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a846a2e22c2---xenoluwokogoxebezuloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf1be06412---zamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/gigopaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac391aea4ff0425ca0795e32ddc5c9d/repuvasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983cce58fd6---90981927249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765fe9c1b5f---31991400222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+art+of+seeing+huxley+pdfPDF 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_off000115f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F8 19144 bytes
SHA-256: 73f590bfd07fbbfaecec995625e3eed1510826aedfa8991861586396e3b62d5b
font_01_sfnt_off00014731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14731 11056 bytes
SHA-256: a3651b803852eb85c15c2fc19bd176255cc8e711ad31e170c2e4874d27544cc3
font_02_sfnt_off000160c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1