Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe5a09417618bdd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 36b7a0e85c8a87d84687aa8b808cc1b1 SHA-1: 5a77c0fe3d271ad0ad9e4e9f7dedb57822a1a9ba SHA-256: fe5a09417618bdd83c805971ea60e07e2e6e1f62c8759ca7afd27b37c2b5c9bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f922642843df5eddce3d250adc8d700/dusok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d2f877268245758166a3ea5286ef8a5/fonipesujiroxenimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9dc67b3c9---gagagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqoepbv4f8d75o31aph3glusk7/mezofogizupesumixawonipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/62399713212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0309587d33---9933587037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoggard1975.com/clients/a/a4/a43fc1111b7ad4318f8b553feb79a890/File/pijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a421efbde02---10510876908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/85054265226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/6769306823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/betajexogibadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/88365841383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr6j630d7k6kj77lo1ljbl5l04/poxebegidonelatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a549cc31a---81849812057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021611058576908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d97ecd2a4b55005b23835034e44fcc/56838011496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda2704c726d057f90ace50adc1e4976/labujuledavusilidakezagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51839509201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archielectronics.com/userfiles/files/didugozojimuwudolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/boiuc2ovc5dhi75f8c55trg32i/bakugimomesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/73115058316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfib4035g7nqrb1h0nvno00lc/47098124674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r392t3tslvmt9lobaoi9s1mdh/14192625961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8n8s4j6m6kquu9jn24qjk9er6/jebunetenixapatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/goperedutotafowowagexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/jegefiregaranafugukabonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=forma+6088+certificaci%C3%B3n+de+radicaci%C3%B3n+de+planillasPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/1346608680.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_off0000eda7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA7 18000 bytes
SHA-256: ee7526838a8d4064ae129dcfe59002cc100f43d676ffa3d87b359b18e3bae45f
font_01_sfnt_off00011b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001336b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336B 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 51144764f8743df12f45c133b1b9bbecebc68d292cd6bc0788d46b19a0a15f2a