Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe64e5769a7f0425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:16:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7d178a40372bf8d4c3813e16c656000e SHA-1: 9b0954c84b8ccdf19d48ab7fbaec6524f076ad28 SHA-256: fe64e5769a7f042523ebf0e555358846d6c849b825e5c03bf241f5e370920ae3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to compromised or malicious websites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF exploits often involves JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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=two+examples+of+first+class+lever PDF link annotation
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/53632122818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/4819757264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/90873598004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/44795412916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gs304mcpffp61hk60mm8hkcp4/65709155753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitianjinghua.cn/admin/userfiles/file/202108301312021914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67617549d5---58891948501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11231548725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/daberunagekexudoxusujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7454d0e58b---33422260565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn4e2nip3rd1e0aals18r7iuii/11858748462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beef200d098---pumakokopivugisoresizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890accf7eff2db4fe556a261290e8a72/79189021410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a31102d6e---vovixebarerufejexoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128950e23481---5550577468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vbqalkaj9o748c6i7qnpclqp6/7149933960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c812bb6ab93bd4fadd6784251034aaa/89310411824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/riwazijerokozujosonopobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubiwibemorigenopuvokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607926eeccff9---67145791259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e76d988f787---xojemunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/bivafagupulafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51511ff944d8c0c3923e18a7bccb9845/lexutukisorujanemobafowe.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_off0000de67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f67e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67E 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 868a61ae2a88a00cb07050f0e017d7dfcc9ba703149de2f81de17454037ac4fa
font_02_sfnt_off00010f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5E 16384 bytes
SHA-256: b268c1bdf350994042021faf6229f8aa59bd1689e0d5953d0eb3c6efcf7d2b06