Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe4f4de32f5a4bef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 21:29:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fa91a23f803e0059e31690f2f94a6e33 SHA-1: 48fed6657ee7b961c272d60de79e77a200b02e91 SHA-256: fe4f4de32f5a4bef701e479d3d83e35cdbc689f430c1966f4b8c53c10698da69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and a high ML classifier score. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a link farm to obscure the true destination. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2b552e382---rofidetuminisibiwapozeku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/duliliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0de135ebf0---pazolapuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/5937310185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb52f1f154---tamusutozokinemilipuzarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/kubajukogepipemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e30a8b7c083b483b91ffc522c009ab1/misezaliburuwewavugidalum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b872b59a466---28552316120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23cd232c9f313441b4e67fdae829881/kibuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/42046842625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewilipekofiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bf8c7c1f4---kumopokunedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/1119192403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/refivobexokuvazone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/74666928813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/27098383593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/74291383275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/demifilutivirodubuzapozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d45c43f1f51---27431493311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/44448418782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/gukafimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee054c67f071dfe774768899ade757a/91494600384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/76936262949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe9c46f09f9f6b5965f7fcca1adc5fd/80267812953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/vavagifuzujovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82589242198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ribosomes+begin+translation+of+an+mrna+transcript+at+the+firstPDF 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_off0000e68a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE68A 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 89bbfcae294fb3695ce646eebb10f7ead688d179220facdd2152d71f1580c5dd
font_01_sfnt_off000112a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A7 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 7f5dbe1611bcffb1f9caa7dc0507cae01e9ff24a52ff2361715fe23f0a85d442
font_02_sfnt_off00012c2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1