Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feb080dd4c11bf43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 10:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8c8aac5ae124d6306fb7c43763d9b120 SHA-1: c50ac0628b3f055a224ea68b9afdd9d9baad33dc SHA-256: feb080dd4c11bf4302bfe05df3a4fcd075b9b55cf7873a42980917e4fa41f158
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are likely used to host phishing pages or distribute further malware. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting and the use of compromised CMS uploads suggest an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebb77c4947---3813684784.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3f279549cf---xafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d1beacf46---divopinalozadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909bc45b180---jovibawelinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abce99c035e---xolusuruxedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94ufpagvcnt5fq8594icbb1l9i/vuriwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56ae6c0444---45215387938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bbd6eb2dbe---59814099027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c04224e4844a21436af4a1896462ad/42768866863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neocota.com/fckimages/file/92416256449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/70144123785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9a2556f32---sinotugapokevudoliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2746461463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/70114424043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/samukomorizanosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caeb6aca2cfe8821de1b7c05a3b7b8ea/80137393315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/71758476476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210601162250990077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/sabomevolorolavopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/xodewopoxifotorawojemita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/25471219783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/50331811449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3750096cb680a2376b9a37d8300dc401/zijepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standardpromotion.com/images/upload/userfiles/files/bozunawagabuwipuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+first+and+third+angle+projection+in+hindiPDF 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_off0000eafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001030f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030F 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 70ea22d74dbed550fb22ea440aeb15c9d13f14c21c26b41dcbb83b96a2259652
font_02_sfnt_off00012d8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8B 11256 bytes
SHA-256: d721e88ca610db79faa5cb6107027992a797be3b949f580beac0b8d4a444a6ab