Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe6ad8b4c6b7b70c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cf7bfa8cee115f08a29dc82e2af84558 SHA-1: 377a17cb1bce40bbfbe5aa7f6a908e85c54fc4a2 SHA-256: fe6ad8b4c6b7b70c83b35209fdab84e976bd7ec2bdb26ec1d1e08abcf632b1bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of numerous external URLs strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/26680656999.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sklepbonus.eu/userfiles/file/14736144011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfzgt.ch/upload/file/35421336060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb6pqihjthlp05j13hb0vqhugh/11313436060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtrade.gr/userfiles_lybo/file/40811863682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/miwukotiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/54797153460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/8695304818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/guropuxaferibupedeboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e0853885b---towupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/87268114838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369d2bede76---17081329175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/43279834713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilateralmatters.org/userfiles/file/bevataguximurufujaluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39290123377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138374fe27b4---zoxaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bd30de66d316df558b6e75cc91e4266/wadifijupesejokoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdad-egypt.com/userfiles/file/25326240112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinagirls.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/mijakapijetavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/nejamiduraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/49206849920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/bixazetuganolobunatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glozor.com/userfiles/file/92677990197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/fudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=clean+apps+on+my+phonePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E8 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 4b5af1e127c1c41758406df4798ec16859460c872ec6534bd1bae654000f3a09
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC29 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 754d8c1dc21eb9f5367cac9a18c6cab2414d6447b3d907c935b07c1bd12a973e
font_02_sfnt_off00012c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1