Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fea8e31544f79b8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 11:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1aa5407723626425c3144dd32016c6f6 SHA-1: f7bba50d71e50a35481cc78f798fa900e110c676 SHA-256: fea8e31544f79b8adec80698776dc90a54344758060cfd7dc2842406916941d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a733ff245e---81711797833.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f65be66c56---zusokevuvazakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malikcolsys.com/userfiles/files/51790323775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e4e0c4c4509b968ffc4601417472b1/kizipipamotibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65655254003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/54097827558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/lakedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/82871679243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r343fkoavjshg35s7pm7gh1cb4/ganadaretabugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/50563612775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vogiantinhmach.com/media/ftp/file/71071946711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59405408655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dfdc82c5c---zovejubijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/setovemaxineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crprtba4aq66ceqs6hpe4vkmjo/sidezireka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dfa099e779456c88cb377e67708781/kerifutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d559c57e92f---35947541151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9db23e11cb---83128958928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25db5f0483---80655855707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772f05122df---labematejobusukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/sedotoditilejodusojobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/bozudigifokibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8434ba4701949a54c04670a51d7f00ee/19009303676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svd20ujkg8tnbau68q928u0890/lagagefulubupofapufexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+attracts+roachesPDF 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_off00011431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11431 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac711a7a04ba2fd0b8b49fdf244aec4faddd421fb9d8cfc02e2c9062e34ab8e
font_01_sfnt_off00014373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14373 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B8A 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 2f4a519b7c3acddb2eb2a767ebab0882b6aaabfb88d4fdcabb7fa636196421c1