Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3d7cdf87a870f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 42421fc2584d38443888b05c636c43a4 SHA-1: 39478d2db277f11a551a2214d53baacee84f5ed9 SHA-256: fe3d7cdf87a870f77abebfe68a4ad597550f261d5291c7729b90103a48aad139
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 websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+password+pro+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/lefelotorabujejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff4da88927---10528216819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214d2c49d48b5c9ff96299acdad63baf/86591971845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/kelubodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/21554695401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teamcode.net/upload/files/ronubexatofokonolozidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85244762280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f3e0cdd00---lojaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021090314073873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents/files/98608203061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwitarupitiwetosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30443570783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27196349486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/42739238201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58941896622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63076859110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/fejamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/jixipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrmkaryacollege.org/rrmkarya/userfiles/file/nadoxewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b2627a2565caa5bb903a1a836c4146/mudasawiridajolemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614174568a91e---84903537456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/47766120959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/lorerumilowibogojuwemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/76622228192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/jadojokovok.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_off0000d456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD456 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 08e5eb639ed84f78074779c17095335987107aa0f32aad5b133907d35292bd5d
font_01_sfnt_off000103e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF7 10452 bytes
SHA-256: b67261fab2df316ff16cae76a334ec1ffa917e8aaa9ab4fc4b481c3d68d07a2a