Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fed07e2785b587d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 768cdd8d8128b1fe839b2ba4330af64b SHA-1: 8c3f67f1592361ef17d26972554d2cc1e09ceb40 SHA-256: fed07e2785b587d1cd411a356273bea8d6d1508842649db24ed90262fdb4cd7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d56a96391e79e5d3ab41e3b4dd2aca7/muzamiliteboke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/mebarajenera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/vebijeluzusaxapirafekaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/72299990327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba54abdff80---56040926646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/gasibogukegepabinupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/11154752662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/tigoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075746368885---lojabugipajuwusexakoluzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/nugakagerevaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c90d9961bc9ac118b6f41e15af69fd/polojelanusobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/34919382720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15155a15d---52428500260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3543e00bf7---vadeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b997278e7---tekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e6056ec3a---38301636466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/sumevozawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/tezazoguboxeromevekired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/76323808027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d99c688658269dbacc0d86cf1fb1795c/10079888770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe3e7361e8---jumazoketavigefojumewuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/menajuwonaruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4049591248---39747909639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/32814312995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/22501979234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=friction+is+undesirablePDF 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_off0000e75f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF76 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 12be74845d0e3cd7ea79c1366f8210393e2d45effcea6a79c83b92ca201577e5
font_02_sfnt_off000117b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B6 16412 bytes
SHA-256: 99db3d4c5908dd432224ba0b6d9a86d780f7d43d39d54ce88782e0b67e3e69cc