Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe444f1031d79cb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a8efc5e804a6f33ca6913ed228e6a488 SHA-1: d9b3d3cda913c34c9bad06b233a1bd4985783cbd SHA-256: fe444f1031d79cb47b2806886063116c05237263066a481f119ac76e4a112188
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging a spearphishing attachment vector.

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=power+system+analysis+and+design+solution+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff09ae0f3f---36182038873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161064bc5dd606---33252174401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161217fdfe9c45---29685329319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d25cebca9a6---larawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327c3643f934c30ce5b448ed7b06b494/36156975583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/58918447301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megatex.ua/images/uploads/file/danegozamuporumupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/dufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/99192592290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/xazusenopaseguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c56b6aa7ecf575d12d48dbec5f116d9/kuwekobiduravigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42336781009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/setowodiwalufare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavanojeluvixulivewikimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/feseradurevire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/84446117485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.org/article_ressources/file/pururuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db7e48566a2fddf28da806bd572b589/80569101438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a960652c38a---68720874966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/pupudejuvesejodafujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5959d2a08b42b40c5d1236edc7707011/74035768436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26b75304f0---57145655393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgzb.com/upfolder/e/files/20210718004733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/migobadewaliraridox.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_off0000e5da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEC 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 668c700c3c2acd5c8cf3cf9dac4fe0eb1d21a0bb70c0de2a5d671c4faed8e53c
font_02_sfnt_off00012d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D0D 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 24071f7c8cf57e55b1c9f1bc6773eaf480021f26ec23341373327503b395ca5d