Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe5bd9b132a3ec82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:44:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa35b3fdc9f12bd8c1c272d63b388e2c SHA-1: d3d9df0e8a0dd1c85c3f71c92ebec58c5d977f45 SHA-256: fe5bd9b132a3ec82c7847b3da17bdcb7a5bf6c7f4f968df616b19da7df147cd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing/malware content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+video+song+to+mp3
    • http://ecole-belair.com/ecole/file/42697405206.pdf
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/gugexevosow.pdf
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/56082630324.pdf
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24149a677ce5c70b00c8316861986902/47250693711.pdf
    • http://shopcloud.cloud/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natepegimotidipixamok.pdf
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujilep.pdf
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210909141529.pdf
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezimo.pdf
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21119774361.pdf
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27201516280.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4c67324dbd5494a999474b6a36f3a2/pomijosezaluzozufimekin.pdf
    • http://yugreat.com/filespath/files/20210903062212.pdf
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/70270814173.pdf
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/40953612172.pdf
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p323l84pbncrso8kd3c5kg6g96/nodarusifatoz.pdf
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/sezax.pdf
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/rijabuzirivorisi.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613efa6dad682---39818412969.pdf
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202109060747135629.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340e14a2917---jesunufatuwagofiful.pdf
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abbf5bf729---19694911197.pdf
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/91598582707.pdf
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/rofawakafetetof.pdf
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/folowedetuvipowatim.pdf
    • 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_off0000bee0.bin
8f9ecdae48cfb32d42ef23e6059c7ebe42be3e71c507ca40c585d387c1f82afd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE0 10964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d828.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD828 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f03a.bin
01c23704ad9affc685abb5fade8f215652579182455f4e2285eb637d9fc480bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03A 17292 bytes