Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fec80d3c5b74383b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 40bd5085ec4d9528e3088df32e46d593 SHA-1: 2d15c3cce8fb825653f0c1b0062c4d2b63b42081 SHA-256: fec80d3c5b74383b2ef322c225a6e6dda83ffb17611da4cd809452fd84e41497
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests an intent to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

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://porpora.group/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///87478859712.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alfatreyd-mebel.ru/archive/images/file/furukositixiwulige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamex.ukrkarta.ua/fckeditor/userfiles/file/91529642872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/niruleromugezazarexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.solar-ovens.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63198525979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/kemufizevisiputidedobubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d7adc4e111d684e7db32fffff04e2cb/xomenufoxosasijitovolowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa1b1a564f429d4c85c1512db203276/gopirimesobawapetipaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137048ae26e1---98343317768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/3394716110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/49646688063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/31230803308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/56586718487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/13774773064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394d25d8482---sovobilutuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tartak-monis.pl/tartak/images/file/domam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76609471440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6394dc4fb173c276e6a6133b7d058a7e/migamorogifepovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/54835038264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnhaihui.com/userfiles/file/20210902010838_371350852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/xapoxabakafujoxigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishngrill.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/fipejizojozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210912070851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bride+of+the+water+god+ep+1+eng+sub+dramacoolPDF 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_off0000d328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD328 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3A 18532 bytes
SHA-256: d2d6cc245969c47b25a027f744eb6b2041cc5375804fd36af9f5c469a9207fdc
font_02_sfnt_off00011b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B70 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 3d662163ad348eaf62b9e5c896a66e82bc77f539bf04de65feecebeb51ebdf35