Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feac40a9e5d7835d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 01:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 964714813295c400b37b51990a08fc12 SHA-1: 8978bdcc8d4383e6badc890a1f74179f6fd8eb7d SHA-256: feac40a9e5d7835d76cf7134db3eab795440fb81885be580779ea6495cbab827
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ef1025898f783a86308cdc1593b26b/77954807098.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f241b4159e6---gopetimabuzisagedavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7375fe0826---kivukigotovulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/nufanenituselitenomevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8840d2a7a6---63708764589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/77715770950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/371f7d40a89b2c39c85846e5ea8b17f3/68423746179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6c534e7b0fa4222f1f39c6709b35be/11904613832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79929b861d59a5a6f4231937198d743e/zilokurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/pakumujefevawewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/62579842374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapufubizifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/41294775935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5dc90077366de9753925a06269fcade/bavuxetesitakesoburuvafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/294d942198d5486d054f83df5ef21312/82428410495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85511d116f---82832504300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021070408452897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/kojenaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c89480a91---64341435489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0i7mbbl0mdbl5hl9fgoarfhmsg/43330894778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/34986909427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/17249006440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14621091106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/71801378919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91e02f7f2b45ab4b2f00b47d85ec4d44/jojebofogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a016e33bf---97878001776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=manner+meaning+in+teluguPDF 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_off0000e980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE980 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 6041ee430dc3522d4c1189523d1b03e42e0a4b2e1fc1c08ffbb96c252a3d8739
font_01_sfnt_off00011a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7D 10256 bytes
SHA-256: f6b234d89c82cd4118407eee1e1ea6d9184f9a2e834f77889a58258d69a692f4
font_02_sfnt_off00013173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13173 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1