Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feaa062aaafe5c73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e88cfe20c72b0866a556d6d2e440ff33 SHA-1: d6f5e7c719cb31826950e5b7a56b030fc853bf5e SHA-256: feaa062aaafe5c7397b62559e22b6e2ade4deebce822dd39aa7a460f66aa7e89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/17379218172.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3b7cea13b---23190537839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penubuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ae831a0e43f16da6a0369a46f7fa81d/33166643068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/81190362609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad39f39ecdf5fcb93b9e84230b30cb3/giripunanofexuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/dagarokowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/3938587582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918952d2ba6---gitozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/054374fe53c0df16473cf1da7203e2e1/81246793345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1816746d3---nopito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/87459262321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/77588656005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/menugoxawonixovozikekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jh2m866mubit5k29jp87p0vhp/lodisiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/9789101268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56559258730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/66690039570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/vevaveredarutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/vuxijosozolene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/7052065720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/62361476457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/240cf2ea483ee6dd1f63a297a2806c72/43065846936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/62566579997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607551281f088---28847990375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=relief+sought+meaningPDF 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_off0000d017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD017 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE829 16928 bytes
SHA-256: ecd8fe5543c4ab74859ccdf4b7bc01c62bf2adba9c0c0731386784fabbf277f4
font_02_sfnt_off00011435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11435 10708 bytes
SHA-256: f8eb3262155e6d086ebce5bcc3dbb42604a6716820949ec092a7a255553b4fbd