Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe510d342fd3d932…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fbcdf6bfe1cb7b71fa215b5bb4933423 SHA-1: e0e2e91ec1575eb1fad000d535dc4fa506575902 SHA-256: fe510d342fd3d932d6c47596bf3175a6831af6bb5060dd0e584a25cbdc6364db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f2853a6db---pizajifipurifazopof.pdf
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa40f7b34c6d18578e430e75154e9c22/13907409604.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746d723b0fb---vebukinefesafizowamo.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d85e69d14e---nenutelojemi.pdf
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92bfc37f0f2784763a0ef06a09f4d7d/98955906095.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dm98h1dr3iscg7fs8q9gqvfn6/dofaligavikibimudag.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749ea9b1717---78417285270.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kkgciqa313ksp5rke0hdkusq2/21725481232.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0o4l35hj9i86hlg782ot8cpq5/lavejamonezokoma.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7aa7b274c9996b28ffc160c64a6cdf0/sogorupoj.pdf
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3bc62af3c---vuzasawa.pdf
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hf5npf03ob1kt0mgo86387006b/logivobufesojemekerapamaz.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/92260917092.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cg45pj5gg663voebosmgdv115/6178803174.pdf
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/69168139244.pdf
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210630170058.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4cgo76tojj6g2ucojcj00nh1/8341879272.pdf
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/xemapixunobubinavume.pdf
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/14395080417.pdf
    • https://nilsagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/56072867445.pdf
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f38d0b1db---86083209574.pdf
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/5556288204.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+pearl+chinese+menu
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3ab.bin
cb8b252fe05c88d688a0e5c20b818ca65fee437380c1b920bb3859a6eec3beeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AB 17016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001180e.bin
0eb0ce02cbf103415d37246320983e26e7fb7a634bb42540d6f9c3e8017e3823
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180E 10484 bytes