Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe301ea7ceae7ef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-10-11 10:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0715e57e741eb43682f841efd9aedcc4 SHA-1: 3ac10129dfba2d0d6153295fe1c046ace5a4b641 SHA-256: fe301ea7ceae7ef5a532424675cea34e43e32c380d5b9aecff19220eb7ce19c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ghd+sports+app+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/75029826304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/615675b0ca822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75698687657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/regidezepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azinsaghf.com/cache/fck_files/file/semijimuruxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/sovugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614093f1cffa1---77771733292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77475969779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16154053e5918c---xibope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/milosuwugajotazaroxatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/jasubukowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um6shf3eldbrlqqd2eqf6u2k9d/lovugonedaboluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/jajuzonafomunanotuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/88312601509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nuzexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agarimo.com/archivos/archivos/53137213436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/9370145307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramvetro.net/userfiles/file/61142018962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spodne-pradlo-2bpoint.sk/UserFiles/File/88827452304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/43340248850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog/file/raperigewonites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/ganal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109140912578608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41899389070.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eda5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B7 18960 bytes
SHA-256: c4ceb40426af31f4db5e3e954f77501925791bcb6c3a84d2399649251bf5c1dc
font_02_sfnt_off0001371d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: be67cac5e4cb3a96a986526ef59ad85f9738a00866b88582362b2ffe40353195