Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe02d171afb1d3ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1ece5c2bc7ab1520570e4d9e289e82c5 SHA-1: 10bd8b5786b4c4dc04fbaf7342fff6832dfbd005 SHA-256: fe02d171afb1d3ac8404b40c72cc1f7814b1a7a4d3c07f530aa0192981cefd44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous URLs hosted on various domains indicates a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ece8c9ffcf---48599515157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/wibelibaxokesilimeredut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f159c429d12f8facd70ae7dd80e112/58783988556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apgr.eu/UserFiles/file/589851930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15a4666eb5---59836982475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kb23rpqoo0907esmhn3p4sb4k/zanavupufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/22266859435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/dakitodolovepepasovogumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a69082cf0---75641142920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/294940929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e3c5c9f64a0f02fc489771463e45bfd/94436962436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/126853973610c4f2a3addc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16648836343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samsung-service-center.ru/uploads/files/gitowamibadolusepelizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/minuwusafixoxuwuwejefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610619a130aec---welarolagevumegoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/movorejofewilisimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/940e87d9bdd86bb76a751a99434905b4/24241529581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba697dfcde---vuvigid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748e2675f80---15989816468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/89841420808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716ab71bedb---16886578977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/paludibepurafaradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecd50311b4---vesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/34736090856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=months+of+the+year+worksheets+cut+and+pastePDF 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_off0000eba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA1 10964 bytes
SHA-256: edcee4fe450aaecef6c0b186559fe09b1f3f5f2f19d903f9cb12ebc5d37a5fd0
font_01_sfnt_off00010530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10530 18108 bytes
SHA-256: c9322eeae7889b653b11707055e0c78d9ce21d744a5f042e2aafadc665a2c925
font_02_sfnt_off000133ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1