Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3857bbf5596c8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5f345df84181afe332b85e2ea749f26e SHA-1: 926553ef93efa044d853875d1255a1203fa408ca SHA-256: fe3857bbf5596c8cc087ead7721ee9a93b95d72d9ce76f5ae74762d48a80d5dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites. Several of these URLs lead to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/gizep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/lojirikizodotuzijigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95a498eaa48c8f4cac5ce7e598cfa41/26764564303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922c611c3d9---3091234483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925dd8bd246---37692412907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/sasatipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/3476785898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025760dd31---53887060234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/tosixokejopudenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/3698322340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c260f70d9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71181652674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dbf813a6fd6e52af212520ba8417d65/62770018705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43634671717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e8270591d0---limevupixusike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukusaxopunusagemadalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/59509249540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcv6tqlr0f4jb0hise45f0tum5/23754576481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94et6uvb2h71dfefjprh8b5ku5/67621233162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f28ada06db---fuxakigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/kozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6aa10d50a---44787663025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungpetrohotel.com/users/files/kiwapadapupusosuwuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starringthestricklers.com/clients/2/2b/2b6f34f03d9ccbd43d04a050b3ab825e/File/66825355953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/zujoluduzoretetodirove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=interfacing+of+stepper+motor+with+8051+microcontroller+pdfPDF 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_off0000e00c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f81e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81E 18640 bytes
SHA-256: bf4254d4954a67735ffefae757f3ce4185e162f17222accf6252bfee46526890
font_02_sfnt_off0001283f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283F 11620 bytes
SHA-256: 42bdfd059805ffabdab5290ed663cadd84e381eb3762a970a95572950004f9ae