Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3758404137293a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 26d4ac1ced053af863d29938c9822148 SHA-1: 62adc6de69273daf3d218d08ac306689c499f9fe SHA-256: fe3758404137293a25d423c8dc7b06170b06834ebaf0d13093196c0ccfd144a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of link farms on potentially compromised or disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or to leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc7ea5d33f---woxibujat.pdf
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/binalogux.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705c9e83801---rifesoma.pdf
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/segorij.pdf
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/dujatavosag.pdf
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/21395517488.pdf
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea5a38d8f5316c44a46aa0c54d90b65e/340730026.pdf
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/94816563179.pdf
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/winet.pdf
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/pepoborisukisobi.pdf
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/86357832979.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77d863f495---37788938854.pdf
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/52897190625.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/51325178668.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608343aaa8a95---dotigamarevadupejilelepaz.pdf
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/ruwizazodon.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eab3876f06---30574127887.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a209d8aec---diwigufovediki.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18ccfab335---5423626223.pdf
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/94290870355.pdf
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a922589e851---40542485177.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081871b360c6---39150786837.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=macbook+pro+heating+up+while+charging
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001075f.bin
05bc63e5a7400b60e46cc9212ef9fb80bf824316826e22ff36618ba6c4a1f58f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075F 10896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012065.bin
18d4d866792d5fe815814f2b592d0110424b2cf8d99156cccecf1aa1ed91cdac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12065 17964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f99.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F99 16792 bytes