Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe700f7ed69c8f6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2c96c59aba70dda9e5c9c1cfdb6f15c4 SHA-1: 2d2b8c63f10bd860c9ffc01f6765bdbb40756752 SHA-256: fe700f7ed69c8f6e0efe94afefca57e8caf3af19da9261bde983c82eafea4076
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics and embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites suggests a phishing or redirection attack. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6aa4f2f748---33283310065.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5137076e01---87205202035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718a3242069---sanoxakujaguxobepetelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c29a34e3d---87491728660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0kgptue11tdi47kk4f9da3omgp/90299441115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cb830a2a5---48860458515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7321d86dba7efe338e870fa7cbd6f948/5392369654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/30286295276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c4466bafd05a1e8a6c7e15391f4b5e/muwudiwezevitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ce4ce2683---78517496775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/nelimixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/72316841541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49bk49vfhihijbfi02uqr7337n/vonamelemoxabevovupake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5fn8mhpcand9dd6a8fg9mnnd4/67461655835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/61723817688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8bdcba433---xibodidujomovesafula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b590bb82cfebdb689388adac1298abc/sakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/64121213397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/35771421378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=watch+online+bollywood+movies+apkPDF 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_off0000f6e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF6 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 0da9eda2f99136d483d1cf240938ae3ea3766148266b2deb76b37ea9ccb6136a
font_02_sfnt_off00013c26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C26 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 5973c43b9868ee13f418a1a2a95c6ffc2840272992d8eb8b0d175f20728a9895