Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fed0ac4de00e45da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 17:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dfab5fe61553e88c77f9ee55c8d032e2 SHA-1: a68ec69851f09880075c4b90965da49e3497b165 SHA-256: fed0ac4de00e45da8bb57214149c320b6bf62e94ce82b5f35d3f6361f5978a9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of URLs with 'utm_term' parameters indicates an attempt to track user engagement with lures like 'free instagram real likes', likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+instagram+real+likes PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e308abf2d---rejeturavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darivuranofasimivoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/7855440750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/latuziviwusepuratipama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonekewogatewijizurojemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50650784472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/vavaboroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/33063159145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teewer.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/xomalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-cso.com/upload/file_folder/file/saxikikizabazadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewozekigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_E2A08862DE1CA89B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32290667087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hot476aiodtepjtkpediktq7ii/56037878043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belavagekameje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/57698782221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210922_170634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxlustry.ru/img/upload/12228188537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f48cf50aa9---wupuxofimejadotovera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210924152436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/21788832521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/75547145628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/48864647705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b40a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB40A 10400 bytes
SHA-256: f15f5c7ae38592e71677075dc94e31b0507d7910565ac82397b26787b4b43a58
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB88 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 62ee97c12715fa095692686d4fe164095fefa67b328c65af914c5cbb5c41132f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF990 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1