Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe2c6d71670c2dbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:22:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: eac1b29ca8f090e097c80040170e0152 SHA-1: c09f04ef0d89a7dffe705de93ec5bf3249c9aba7 SHA-256: fe2c6d71670c2dbc2ad40574c53b6f0e04e4f70350318a61ba3b34ebf5435891
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm containing numerous external URIs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/3599398920.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485f23e814cddf897d49359760a5a157/jirupupulugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/55168983586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a368819c3be7c69dc7816cd3d49aadd9/57832969352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/xinabavavabiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f8d4de3bd---21341406282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d877ec7b51---6420133003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/pulasorasawoveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/banuxulenodopuxuwiwinaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9cae8c4e4a---4254051771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794b6c29f2b---83380346226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bd894bfeb---xukakesijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/96117236964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/3955154957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3797f797151f1ad8b9dea12965a3140/xibubeponanejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/zofoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43137675872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/bowoxipefojobepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/jupivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ceabvfig7cf0t29crsn1pidvs/xagifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/26988042468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/burepigidusidakuseviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/mopanopuwisesowirowojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=section+1.1+what+is+science+worksheet+answers+biologyPDF 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_off000117f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13003 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 321ed8816ae290f930e9e694ca1f7c4ad1c301b211bbf5739b801ac7491e2972
font_02_sfnt_off00015af6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AF6 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 7417c9a9db7e1871f3fadeb807030663c11db186e67b9f41afa644eda4295b7e