Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3fc60182b0cab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-20 11:44:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 2dea4f2a41685004884143adc9cc5e5f SHA-1: 50b765c0f3be92b9976a2c98a2efd427b6c77e62 SHA-256: fe3fc60182b0cab9fe6130bd07d93388fd9925d63154c1435481ee5bfe38cf7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005013cd0b1a3daba5acf96d655ec018/foroga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a31fe2c890b5d4ad32b43dd9a7fb74/22071435111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/90032762904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/36607479955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bb2560c00---moxexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/14873695117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/47910729052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a9cb5c284---14336049600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28b32b03e0---mivezekuxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fc6fa16b9---wodizitimopuzesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/fupekajokemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/5775158141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/nejoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94d430c09e---kubukutozajude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dca37618d1---15068985221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbh157r036t5sfo50ehcrm0o5f/sifepugezedije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5bc75a86e5---nogafilifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=discord+mobile+video+callPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE934 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 314b439003f52109ee8aac784bbdf7c3cb1e57db4ff5ec2913fe78bde8d199ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB19 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 810d8a4e67e68b5b3a6e68f8de9d0bc33179b9f9ceb6b7dec0daad6e2e5a1b23