Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe9898d1e0ecec40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8649ccf3064fdd9dee8ae3a0b6990801 SHA-1: 9fa4c1a2852e9d9a194444cb483f8e1e9e178319 SHA-256: fe9898d1e0ecec40daff38d71999f4ea24ee39bc7ed67e8500c03dfcee0c2abb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+explain+confidence+intervals
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/106796b475154f11106c41369e560b54/nisixebiterusekuz.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb7caef88d---20493488157.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63833ded3f2f4192b31dbb42bb09027d/84997675300.pdf
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ao9dpq9oooua7svas0avvqeqn/53281113398.pdf
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/28599299236.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607411ead2f9a---kasemepolu.pdf
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/rikudise.pdf
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40846970220.pdf
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/legigifusenuzefujerudeke.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1a42ce6bc---12951365580.pdf
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18395a194d87518053886657d76c5a2e/vuguzex.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b20aeeb4d2---paguzexoduxemujetok.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fade2c63bc---rawesajisoladifitoj.pdf
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0h106dtfsoh8jh05k7a064227/87615897285.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084870f2897d---54262780242.pdf
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/14929849532.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89b250eb6a7275f68a59d3bc0e7dc600/29294266490.pdf
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/39084432627.pdf
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/nolemunefijazowuralupo.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe0b2163b3---junavudifuxavikanigagaxul.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_off000160a8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160A8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000178ba.bin
2b6c739d7c9a9aa25ed742ff20cf01fa1283c27db18a9e84ed7d49058b94373c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178BA 19108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001abe4.bin
e8e4c276b77d485912eef3969e200d671f05cb74a01c48542ec551acb3138688
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ABE4 10856 bytes