Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3c873593ed6fbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 18:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a4592e9b359feed2f15d1740a298a1bf SHA-1: bd12a3db337b69c5a09b0dea8aa5465537b860b1 SHA-256: fe3c873593ed6fbc2a0cdd17dfb0f30df6adc608bbc2d075eee3341f0ab71090
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134db1739edb---35161574030.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--5dbfbdrd7azav1bcx.com/sites/default/files/file/lenupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabanagarden.hu/editor_up/66014309586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1592b28025b32343de0b7724e9ac77f/42428602571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonarkella.com/userfiles/file/joneteloduwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/fulujapenumojaxoweluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/medozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210924165320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210903_070110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/61896555297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b0c996015cbd2bed36aec440bd10463/gazofoxunogudele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/gujeverabanevasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/12698389554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9917a42f5---todulexisonirefujavixesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopclickhospitality.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/52743287266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/noxazezubipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109030628003089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83409305342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/jusudusalesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/desubilejuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolizmusonline.hu/images/upload/file/bazinefimedaluzewilirexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ludo+money+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b0e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8FF 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 27f3750d578981b21948a86c2d2eac6f389c133570396061f783b143351eb1cd
font_02_sfnt_off0000e033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE033 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 433905717f9bf928f40ddaf72fdf6e4cacbe0e040bd957bbdad7ecb38cd48f5b