Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe7ba2a2e1359889…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 23:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 04630973e384b3e95f6e4786044bd984 SHA-1: 784b06ae5bf2ca9e364767346702aabe1a4e6d5a SHA-256: fe7ba2a2e13598892456634f4b4b8c4c9a3f8afeecc37ff10c9aa4952f7906e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment used to deliver a secondary payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+de+rem%C3%A9diation+svt+2nde PDF link annotation
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/8912942374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/mazalufuxexixebifanisepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996efc1be8a---46762486054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03de7a7065d1d0dd0348b0bda016ae39/38538372998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/78309478979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed96fbee6e8---filelorifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/kumexezivifaxixupasegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/jugakoneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918d3c3d596---neporexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be340365cac2586152efcbe11da731cf/28409067441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c72a5f79e54a24b86ddc4a2312ff393c/53981476711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12932213377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/25178105347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmacfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38648415201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/709447790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/24808399984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/pabofujiwekufibogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be875ec342442ab51603dad85ccbd949/64708482035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/renuzaxorofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/fijogojutuxamutivikubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/19325119070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s6i1lc8lficpss7dpvag3ns54/dozuzanosijenabiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fd576337b---somanoselizutaribururap.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_off000102a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A9 18108 bytes
SHA-256: cac6f8af5289a021a276ac4f43c8cbd7b3a1d133ccf2c989ec0902aa4f69849e
font_01_sfnt_off00012fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAC 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 20e1127b029b329d5b34306888b5d1a98b7ab25d5fcd56ebdbdd31b1277c681b
font_02_sfnt_off000148bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1