Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe682b7cd623f656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 22:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 684e160b306fdbefd6434256dc26b821 SHA-1: fdd37a5c551591f1fcad89f0cf00199affb01653 SHA-256: fe682b7cd623f656b7166b62acbc7614095cd05d2d5eb6d50a16e3f29f3066af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or further stages of an attack through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9864

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://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/mefip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads//files/202107291621064871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/113a5ce6a361eeada89dd66888adebeb/mamoturabupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a282ceea6---geduperixixevevemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/zemulekeruxowugulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c75420ce---kugive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd2494c58bb9bc2c5c5f3f7a3f5c9b4e/jalafajudupanilawerapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/davexavexogaluzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/mewuruzelifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/sijidoxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115844761ee1---bidavufuzawuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6625c4dcc04290d28f36c21574314d6/tulagobixulexidefapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenithoverseas.com/assets/userfiles/files/29110068990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2325fe7fce---10661566800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/357bd3d26fe6ea415a3a71b91dfafe06/ziwexagufijobopiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929054b22db---femubalagorigijeludip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/23695279073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/87929862679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/zolaxekoluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/94876238349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumigapujaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e448cebd0a1---65120601362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/97734870371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/99240485312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=strf6267+power+supply+circuit+diagram+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000138d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D9 1672 bytes
SHA-256: e9e2218b06bd42d319613c158774d7ae4a7162027156644eed0847fcb6471f86
font_01_sfnt_off000140cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000158dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158DD 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 5a89d49cf4661bc2438fa2fc292abe01484ad7c3e9c1188945b0c85b62ba3ca1
font_03_sfnt_off00018894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18894 11572 bytes
SHA-256: 737e6fcd6ad0d1995d66265c3277552ca38e725618f9f936131288917467c07f