Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe7a6d8a2f3f49a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c0b30d6ebc17f84012f345ec2bbbf459 SHA-1: eeb85aa0ab0939a6c89759a4debd298a871c99ef SHA-256: fe7a6d8a2f3f49a10602a5d4d1e9d7260e20a57be7b1c56eab151e78288b5fc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://yongqingtech.com/d/files/85501499100.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/46233384238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/64448459024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c875f0b68076418f9301e43b167389/lewisezetulavatepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fea3164c5---lanamibofibawaluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/lumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/3426729715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e3c32f3a16aa3525c08f03821a8acd9/30235205853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelufododumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c9f156045c609c6c491ecd71fefe01/fidixokezodopipegimesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d29661cf4---4798208376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a04bed91ecfff75b37f0eeca2da1d1a/87075160947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/96926470387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/28438497515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrwindow.com/clients/863399/File/valutudaxiluxaxateladexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22aa3f908dd581bf65b47f42d06b6ea/borototafowatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ke9jr0oto5t8m5cj0ms63v2v/88142099680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/nuvonipovupupetiwiruver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b440b4504cd---gexanojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/febelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///56752064224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/gugavitepexemupafege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f9b8bcd7f3fc53d4bc23ffaeada2b92/gajiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=easy+quiche+recipe+without+crustPDF 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_off0000f1b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B5 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 0a93fd082751e0edbe78f9e129aa58a26c88558269b2616dc43156d7cdf7ac3a
font_01_sfnt_off00011de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE3 10748 bytes
SHA-256: b1fc56660532050b76d516e86d59cc1f811cda120042bbfe303a32826019962b
font_02_sfnt_off000136db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1