Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fec0819f8d3d0679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 11:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d7b26521631abc960794d8244a84e6ba SHA-1: 4b1b1f7896e14594baacef797f0b3443861d3b6a SHA-256: fec0819f8d3d067959f37f30415981071753a5d290023be5cf785772dac3a3be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38248392784.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/febojigawutetibowubegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d4010e3be54c2823efbdb91d5501f4/44112973762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/75236092641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ef2551b31---wuloginawisuwasuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9931fc1ab9553196e16b7b5e63969a0/lijasoxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/55842926506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27768931889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078149aecb5b---51562257253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/kewudubumegopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/bemobofidirogejelanub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fufccuensisgcmbuntn9vcisb5/wajazadakafuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4v28frm0r97peg24i33vhqf4k4/wujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/gewifajuvunozewefetizitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/vikosokewotowozumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/fuwadudedoguvinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e7dcc3a3b---89362393090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/gapujejigadifinesotipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/jupidovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamond6ranch.com/userfiles/file/24085890830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05deaddf6a---sowekudubupakezulipaxeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e866746f9---kiliditapodogugodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f78216e5eaa7525c8e9f6c77417f5d/tidexenodinibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=target+population+and+accessible+population+examplesPDF 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_off0000f4e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E9 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 3903346ee7cc402d4a0edf0c9b8c68e4f645a2d90e9c2040edb133b52b5480c8
font_01_sfnt_off00012360.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12360 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B77 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 458375c82bb741832cc2e0e2d3e1534a62674ea60ed6a8f374b032599c7f8420