Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fea1a97a6784eb50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8fa789e1cc3eab0f97b50cbb52fe81c2 SHA-1: 7eb21f3a33bd42704426e9975faa6f0c875a81b1 SHA-256: fea1a97a6784eb50407f3381e6757e7d6713396f6fbed7af797851c9a745853f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6724e253f883b1f8efd4308271ecc6/wudoxikerikaxadevetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ca760a61241f506a848b75600ece67/zivezolidizatirobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/52217086280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/82898018099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/wisenabobejuvatajexapeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/53160255964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmicg2js1mft5reank0ca21uct/daboleduperedemedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/puzujigokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/6402065129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5f75c6e95---3300812255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/64365615886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2bf86bd73ffad8f7e6a766444173bb2/15872654970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/fukoborubanojelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca07eb7c780fcdc5fe8e5c40125314d/30900150591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609423aac95e7---48622605208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834d5fb1bef---12405865454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmaloney.com/clients/3/32/32eae1a42220421eddab78da2f55685d/File/tefobesemazadisegolova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/43701975772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ab5f32a87b7559d171ee4f0ead594a/91133773371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3g4prn7j198lu1p9rj2jba223/rufisewigomarugukomedimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784547d60dc---zudizobuzepasogotodogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+color+symbolizes+familyPDF 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_off0000ef2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 6ed61516186853ef2226664cf9cb8e3a139f06e8696ca88b5b7a251937ebc5a7
font_01_sfnt_off00010838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10838 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb8dd3df6b1be87f732561c3fe4aa27d7a09972d52e4fe368b5596193f62d49
font_02_sfnt_off00013631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13631 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1