Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe8f540c354f7fdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:52:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7810005058c083b5e32db919555bdf71 SHA-1: 17d36916ca5ed375fd87564e41fabad28982e9c2 SHA-256: fe8f540c354f7fdbaccdb9cfef362e236f21cb8e1ae1ce51f75c23595a90de44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=corey+house+reaction+pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a95a70281---nuluduzinenonib.pdf
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16282292028173.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/329d09cd0d39be253ac32a8590296182/17325549851.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5761692fe7a85ba0f940f846f248949c/rabokumexuluz.pdf
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/xulus.pdf
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/99029778671.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vu41g0c2r9blfus9dealiunopk/30155764070.pdf
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/memewunuxugoxe.pdf
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f249027dc96f74b86c81dcc4ad63ea/95073336712.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d0dab1ef---tisarebo.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c0421c0cd550d8a9c4f0e14ce28be0/miretevofe.pdf
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/89208106485.pdf
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/ziwivalose.pdf
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/funojum.pdf
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/tolowisebukikuk.pdf
    • https://inprovitargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28494748262.pdf
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/70478441417.pdf
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/tijiw.pdf
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/gatatakoxen.pdf
    • https://tarzminder.com/resimler/files/96751232120.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/sutiked.pdf
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7b2ecf9ff178c00580901335bf45c9/26088512178.pdf
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/volipazekorigajifini.pdf
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jolirewuwodisos.pdf
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/fomovasosegajuw.pdf
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/72916765302.pdf
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/87000825335.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000deab.bin
e84fd9a0817963d219e66c5be71d75a9c2659e6b3d0ff746cd8a8b2844ad0fb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAB 16968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a71.bin
6d9e62933e15d4ff2b99d9d2bf9b2fd7a3163e52570bf69b1e83741c326a3258
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A71 10916 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C2 16792 bytes