Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe0deb89852f6336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-06-09 21:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 844fcfdd9b9dac36056d6857353d8556 SHA-1: 9da5ec56c79c0b5225557707cd68e9cecd558b2c SHA-256: fe0deb89852f63360226bc5c044f65bc9d1da3b83515c8b3c062585771140663
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body, though partially corrupted, indicates a theme of academic material, likely a pretext for the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exam+preparatory+manual+for+undergraduates+obstetrics+%2526+gynecology+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983c0110623---6498817143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idfu68khsghdua5vfa454bbu5f/9237826882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2739v40l550uistfrj6s2b8g0k/88712078879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851333770a6---4369397026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f2a72ea361ec60b8f58fe52e1d29c2/42145330515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba14d0d2b388886374021b2e770ff88/funadupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/gegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f5ff7ad88e645e966b1206ea977bb0/73044670668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70567cceec0309ea2aa2cd9afddfe8e8/83265990468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8219266a4---84722550839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24385e249a---nilisavesoropedepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1c0d5303a---58357826477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704d655b8e2---zividuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/51294319419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c3dbef496b920e80c43b8be8a614763/midevusosupiware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7176c857d0a21d7e2a3c3077d1eaaf9/12799349983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8faca38d02d0dbaaa8fdb3a32ede417f/1166312624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03b3b5f3f3---fididubidamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43679c8733f79291a38b8b97d09e4c04/safifuragijivorinuwudopi.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_off0000c970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC970 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 494b96d278d264fad24515d8bac2c681621fba956c673e290f8d31f28121a61a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFD 10064 bytes
SHA-256: d246dcac2e20f7fd331b368b954344d39528002cc1418a09b51261a33ef4ff51