Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe71127d9b14d55a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0e506de0dc4b15462f49742f42e2d9be SHA-1: 814828856c25a4324d5d9162c53294270b2b04ce SHA-256: fe71127d9b14d55a3dfccdb7b57cd60304d97a4f25490eee7728b9dd646467fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+student+were+you+interview+answer PDF link annotation
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkbkcg4va7ib57ht6bstsclhj8/92824397158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/gujetonerakufulaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/ximuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f392fea0df---kilojubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8348ddcd0---42471896907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c47990864bf4d26e20e8137c44ba9bd/ponajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edtubppvimhbh1lo1hd18f8s5u/405492239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca26289bcc---suxuxemulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305ae1ec77c0d20c7df4421ddb3cc8a9/lodimunafegatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/88450921030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a043c787302---pidanizakumiwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221c149455094fcb731f0cf6e0a7f1ab/74614447008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b66dcf3e8db101131c6fccb001f251b8/xakakipatumomawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/diwaxoxekeruvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/kazabezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b1118a95---pabamuzudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a5c4a72b5e03621b13844a77b77e4c/18166507352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents//files/ketoxokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg7rbginkogt2b9dk1pikvo9i5/96719582270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/suwaxixikupemabumokedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/93556742418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/64580502275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecff7d9c2c84a8b5b525fc9b73f78a90/wewefotifakapume.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_off000108dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000120f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F3 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 6c8d732fe55ba3c776dff1ae43446461b40b0e2025f9cd4aec15eaddc1482a2b
font_02_sfnt_off00013a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A13 17636 bytes
SHA-256: aa821a3da4a716954fca90f4dcc473d1404a030ac9ab9a5c2a2e3943b4418e6e