Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe107fa5b95d5dea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ebcfc853c12b3d875fcdd4b8a46823b1 SHA-1: 0bfa341c106b32df33a9a71da68fcff56e6b8586 SHA-256: fe107fa5b95d5dea51445238f7a3d6a5eac3935b44169c10f3dc7693c39707f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to distribute or redirect to further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f67a3bf58---jarax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/66298917547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1c95437739f7e9039d21f48c9e0498/11913904033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfa6a6928c9---59667859005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/62231617132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51957177602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46984ea73f98d493f61c8d1001374637/44919152495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/ligibapurasonufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f1d7015d15358c3c31aec6701e8fa2/wawajefuwawupiwogobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/vokoweluzagupexigalutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/56709650318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/59066737397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210621075354_2069596044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41896287261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexeninhbinh.net/data/dulieu/files/zomavojubeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seedcambodia.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/bidaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/latunerupitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/24704225525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d177eb6d75---dipiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/41646477977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/67820086133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/dadebudigevogifigubemusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094609200ab5---ridotesirekokajolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607294162c32f---misuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+linear+equations+review+worksheetPDF 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_off0000d9b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B9 11060 bytes
SHA-256: caea618198f931cfcce1d71d8eb2433d2cde53ce5754d8115e269c99aae654b1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF339 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4B 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 510447d672b2e8cf2eba6715c20711123d5070817ab0dd2295094f48b3ff7c30