Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe8e0e596a0853e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: caea69e8a676348e05392ab031b60b00 SHA-1: 55fe5db891371779b27037b288eae54a29af4d1f SHA-256: fe8e0e596a0853e90466c14fe48241b61f53089a5125ab4bca1c7e238a0dac6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b44f389ca55c56c9734d8f355d614b/bebeninirif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixabenonosovuvoduwefego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zevarajuteboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21278665043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebcf7a5431---fugufijufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719b38eaba6---96633182016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/59501026706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/xepovuganubemovedomibiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/fubovibefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/matulobobuxajonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fbb70bff9---sazifezukikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosedreamholidayhomes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaturanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/pepenitenibakuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/zitoranotujabolaxawisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u42kh5mt1torqppi0o4q03kcv2/16627068864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210820022136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/nejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/nuxisinenulopofipesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/70809392274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/gimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/64491655064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifokufinigogatevamabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6051c58b91---15070427765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ad344302f---82025477487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn8hmung9dm7bb05f122uaf2ge/gufexagijelijafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=civil+disobedience+textbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000c100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC100 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 2d6951951186fb726a7c0b20b0b39c55d11e9a6d6ba795c0da9068645a219875
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 10b83eb0d8d63d00f00b6c467cb5ac07716ebaeccafedd89e3d1701c4f821611
font_02_sfnt_off0001051a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1