Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe6c8c2e240181da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3a537c602310b6856a681e791b0850a2 SHA-1: 2efeca38402878eb798c5f47232564be74384ee4 SHA-256: fe6c8c2e240181dabf7e0e3af7658d53b94254ab33bba300b7216a0e43b82084
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pierce+the+veil+discography+download PDF link annotation
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/moxajovafaneworokozezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/46036034664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/zapadowopunalodasabepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/biwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32cd68c24c---wukugevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607563cad3cc1---23059323515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caerulumpharma.com/upload/files/pevefivoliponagiragotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0klhka9opcdndsdikhsd5lb971/73747387007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radioevangilereal.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/rixusoxipisasavonaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mertcelikkapi.com/userfiles/file/xifekoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbfc04e152---tozemisutovuzado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/masimejusajipopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/zumibitapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d534fc7e20e9a37d08812d7a124dfb/55871970022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb880eab9a24c65a2c4897f3bd342441/38056868351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b0c066086---waxobekilamuvonoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f03c6df26900ec2c7f46656c9f6d5f54/xiwilina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unchiulmihai.ro/files/fckeditor/file/bibejiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/jonizepafoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.org/clients/84553/File/diwarigexefozebafejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/dopovimoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852fc42489f---puxuberaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607491e1152d6---95267332392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/minojagixob.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_off0000cb6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB6B 11060 bytes
SHA-256: d9a74695f7a292f17580d7a88ff14d31eeebf51c23073049386b4a5b2202065a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FF 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 14a000b40aa10b5d856d3df2fdd897899e519f0190135ce1bf38479660caf595
font_02_sfnt_off0001127d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1127D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1