Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe1c55399c0e10b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:25:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 060274a1ecff478955287a6bdf6542ab SHA-1: 64118a634b6c4cf0e4df49dd3a470562efa67fb3 SHA-256: fe1c55399c0e10b07022785f93b95076d0cf34ea2faab23a95004e89d1462d98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs indicate an attempt to direct the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/vekefibujina.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqdkt1eu56f4hb9cin23hpvh9f/37492337779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/gorujarejomezezixirenolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jafra-com.at/userfiles/file/pukofoduvuvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/81626835301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6093ddd43920bb11565184d242cf42f1/72710405087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f5ce91868---juderuzomajokijifipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2f66352a---rokuwanofopixomube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/fadoxisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b469ec8f510---23989341243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/pitutujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c9e327a47e9362ae39e6a65059b009/lerumaruzawobezatekewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/sirepozokemezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/kowekidufikabodusutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillyard-johnson-mahoney.com/clients/62114/File/76891549566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9edf02f0747ae10855d218ce10f42ab/nasowelosegexukovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095103f710b1---12799449366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/49432808037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timecraftz.com/userfiles/file/piwebawazemorodeturikifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/sukavapunokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/kovilumixorarewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af3825084bcec376e89957e65c96c724/28333799654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/pufivusakexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/52780622796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pull+a+muscle+meaningPDF 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_off0000e283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE283 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc7c5564b59a0c20aeb50bb9f66a6efed8943f5af8051bd2c687dbd920dfd14
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D4 18192 bytes
SHA-256: d232f54f6bc249629f9e1a587beb96ccd1097fd3e3598c8260c49da1b423c9ad
font_02_sfnt_off000128d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1