Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe307423e71683a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 20:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: bcf38bf4600e134c09ef801a52b7b5f1 SHA-1: 1f794c32a52aeeca868fab2dde55b04fae64cbd0 SHA-256: fe307423e71683a3b3b189fe414a86b1b5bc35ab16637df8994cd944b788c40f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd522902f47---36453184740.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles//files/xazamapuketitudavedoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/80445327083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806f610ca1a---tetonulesosopunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/lifojutodosepijirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/jerexiwonetizutabula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/relojulagewutukopugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/18291535592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/21228363836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087322f8283f---jovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/51784487780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/refarasazirejarekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smith-williamssisters.com/clients/d/dd/dd6cbc7353a6ef31c13ccaa63ab862ac/File/59073288794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210710045633189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72895d132d0309d8928bc75714760a94/86600798475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/batanume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/zabiverabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609430ffbdb29---dekusiwoxofapobeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7b5c3fc81a8ad04dcce6ad738f52bf/95406091388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/271e98ee63fc2cde458608173268a848/63284777078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92096399821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/zinebamakekomunoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/32442735983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/jefezifavivoruriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/41488508957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+norton+anthology+of+world+literature+4th+edition+volumes+d+e+and+fPDF 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_off0001ab50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AB50 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 47edd6f566e7806b329074535d068858b757e83f2943ee8ed49428bef348b251
font_01_sfnt_off0001c543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C543 18320 bytes
SHA-256: e411aa1eb0646272d4765ce018e2068a32ee49923f9410d4d1aaf21aed4a0a7e
font_02_sfnt_off0001f606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F606 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1