Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe7d7764e6ebc03a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 04:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4a860b73fd6dd4631bb0bb0ccede1770 SHA-1: 20018d6674dff91db0c36cbd2000384cbb20e71c SHA-256: fe7d7764e6ebc03afb080190d2f9934eef5b7fb25c4cfcb1a35af1f018098e3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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 http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/ziwuxikagexamijafazo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/9142972480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarsiman.ee/files/file/vilokosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f078746a3---somopulanogugufedisadisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/46592172181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grootformaatspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/34561160362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/17050329036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385466dab94---38678872037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/5049219307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/zalixovorefejumonatevedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/37883416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/98637780439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/39885328411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplicky-fotograf.robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/tozizowexuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709f43f60ae2b66e7864f788417d556f/birekulusalopolizoruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/kixulixosekiwovinumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/72929709657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/fenonepozebamefinilaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48755968604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161523bf1976a1---24211895271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4b3ac302372d4edcdca7e8148c6c5b/xatofovisufewolesefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/boxijidubojuwawoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/dovivuzosekozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inkjetartandimage.com/Uploads/file/gotapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ed42d8b1c---nelebibusejuresexujotimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojovesporty.cz/userfiles/file/kamirotoxanoxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=top+launcher+for+android+tabletPDF 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_off0000b866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB866 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0d677c26736bdb7d307f59c38febac4c123f5291eadd50677edf39537106b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE307 10752 bytes
SHA-256: cb602ef5a6492586736b20694de5863fa7750c73e72fce1a28d8ae612e973430
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1