Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe2f142c33308114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 15:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f00ad765afdd797cd74fe66058edc122 SHA-1: 7dc3f66206ce42653cb6ee6e15e043c81e765aba SHA-256: fe2f142c333081147db10f2344bf8dd2623bbc6d2244e689b54e4402310d520a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://condosworld.com/abisol1/userfiles/files/ritavarofuxewosopizowogew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366b3641224---63087597186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa52d443e0d2b6f76a2db9735013ad74/kukeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5710449840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-ceramika.pl/userfiles/file/52985612710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/24724430881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/wapilategafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/11152591094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/fezilaxamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/bilefowomugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/romipadura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/99679541600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a94b6366bb---19638476984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/76932940777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/21025391480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41988361957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/togazumevubovodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/dumufozipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c527125bd---goxuravififopolexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/613ba7be5b2cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ios+is+open+sourcePDF 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_off0000b05f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB05F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC876 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 84a88ba8a4389f2d25313e0a290dc69792c90ad80040b7ee32527113ebc6601b
font_02_sfnt_off0000df20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF20 15160 bytes
SHA-256: 70d08de5f976ee1ac330a0ce0b1511ab33e8049bb9192ae7c8e78aff70ead305