Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe521677c57b0032…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 05:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 885144cf1465d0718e10fb7d99f339a1 SHA-1: 173fae144a95b39e4b5be352f1cd2ee3ea30a6e5 SHA-256: fe521677c57b003297570c9826a54c1d0484b51e2e3748aa70b9fd74e0a2a65d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely serves a harmful purpose. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to external sites, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+bodyweight+workout+app+android PDF link annotation
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/farajejixofigoxofajexevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/deweba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135db7d8e620---2190164493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/valaxedegesagiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/1864481903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kd-council.com/upfile/files/sezumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5k6mfa2li2cbid2sb8f9qae6/tawilafetadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/fonasidonemakatuduvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/paresunokelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4a34b3e9e---58281267140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/gexugefufuxunajomepuxedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/rexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://athaj2.specialty-match.com/upload/files/bupakaxabikinopafikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42ho22ghont6e8ebi3rock33g5/87586827387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tornyanggrace.com/upload/file/60336319755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/36713608149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/87045360443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanarfabrics.com/firma/files/wopafokaxevifitezemixamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bifruit.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rejisojidoxozoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/jiguzavepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenegiving.aboutgiving.net/sites/default/files/editor/file/defuniwoguf.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_off0000e4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D1 17244 bytes
SHA-256: afa854d12cb15322cb23d0afa372360d2782590fe73cdf252147607eabd18a63
font_01_sfnt_off0001119c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B3 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 980e0fb1bf38e0f249104f14606be687814c6e87856211fb8538fd538c67980a