Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe75e567d2457a60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-08-07 09:14:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 99169b5632c510f35ec0222ae68be522 SHA-1: 2747a3f44f67e1abe9c1fe57458fe57271ddc532 SHA-256: fe75e567d2457a60314607dc4f94d53949cd597c30a8c21443cd713b77cb98f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to potentially malicious content.

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 http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/rulolinebasokazude.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/16377072907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be14e026d3a---rofesupabavirixita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradigma.bg/uf/file/tugibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/dufebiguxalawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708207abcae---kusaludamijefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/86394174698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/16109097587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3377c2ed21---64738723190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/xonutanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d05b79d10f641e8a273c7d359ccc4c7/dugibumovaselelixuxipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083be3c8233f---rodejumepevomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4372225b4---30205798735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tluo9l7havnrp0oks1npa7r6vv/84578448216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a113c57ed0c---rekebejadotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sda80birqg1hr9f82k8j5i9evc/80712184376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063ba9aaf01782f82d07e18f1ba61011/xuwibezulusevuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815f02a21b9---funomififuwelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/rulikodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs//files/gabojixizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ec7aa6b4e---37359773736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15i556motavdf8gg5j4li6jve5/86544614238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab93uco2cqq4l6vn6t50uv5g2/sijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=racing+champions+diecast+valuesPDF 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_off0000f99f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99F 19912 bytes
SHA-256: de2f54f34cc11ca3257c2a9661a306b4c31bc0e0f090af020c998640e519905b
font_01_sfnt_off00012c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C25 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 29922e716b11d593905f8becaa249e81368bdaa88e65f5ed14162d4f9894733e
font_02_sfnt_off0001459e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1459E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1