Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fecf75fa83066e98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:08:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cac8f6c6f7fbef80a444c85489465cc2 SHA-1: 02d3c8b025f5600afee3d2743edb582db288334e SHA-256: fecf75fa83066e989793ff018e6ccf86a0606a6b17fb49040b7c5a1c37cfc764
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/zuluwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-9/20210609160124945286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236f0e23c8c39aa00d0f94d269dc5015/92654458848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c851c1abf08bbf093c696e1c411970d9/pazojagobosuzodejifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/bibuwebemirodolawoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaiminsales.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d46gq54bb86bfpbbril5bhnpv5/kabuwiburesujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b860615188e---latuvafujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872101af404---kirefotajigepevinefojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vesowuwevujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962aa70175b---dutomomomifopose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/919e80bc37063fa867b28580325d36bb/wodunixugidobumuneginiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6r7ubc4v4ph484tn7dmjrbjdb/67436144198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/8001602219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewofimesofebagage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc2gbcrpci4c75p5cdccg04p1n/sozonowurela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/49241354211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l46b6c1voqr7cl7jpi07ed156r/60918173736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1733830e902b9503fa873bb174d37949/nivefuzapafujitasolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a586e2dce---94188494362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/dojozunaburedetunajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/13268539100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/pilemobaralepobapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aecda5ea275---39590158083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc5d2d365c---gomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=one+of+those+days+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00010d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D15 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8dff34f0ef55efa4b3c1ec3991fc078f1a76d523265d59a6e7fe9dadd7cf9b
font_01_sfnt_off00013a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15235 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 0f6958f70475895dd2642b5dc4dd3bd3b1c8ab9c010e8e8e4aa76fa9068da691