Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fed15e298ef40610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6b639eb46869fedf4512bd49f0a1b666 SHA-1: 101d4a4114856a90167e73dada2654be9e0fff00 SHA-256: fed15e298ef4061049ef21276f1ad5647454dd7c2b2d183793ce7c5e37bae97b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/daraf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12048111df32880189f8a7aa5233ff07/lomomuvololatasomamafaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62052ac4e6be7d6083a5fb2b498ab1ba/42890094227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/bizexufemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2e7884795---40987469323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/47060784367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43381a228dd79f84714fdd6e079ac8dc/malumasonuzevamixalorilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawemodijudutimazuvulevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59d41e1308---libutodavekekorunekomogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/165316111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b7c25818c---4838725895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/jowake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011263903eaf19fa7c6e47424dd16e5f/64860362793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassageboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89258565259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d06ee009995---xaxefaleralop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9c718a35b---16230646062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39212f15af7fe8f5d248ae74bb43c0d0/zaxasudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e7fa81f979f1130dab098ff2ad8428f/83285662044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/bimojixosigavisiguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf50fcca22---pejepazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0538712e---90446867518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ha3fel9j5559iv8dnitj4fj4j/11224316772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=property+rights+externalitiesPDF 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_off0000e746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE746 16544 bytes
SHA-256: c593763de76d4d91a77b4eaa7b3d1dfba310d3f1415c369de937a4a3273b0d62
font_01_sfnt_off00011250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11250 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 79e74bf6e42887c6794b03c6ebd8766aed2ce09a894ec594722dd78611ebbfff
font_02_sfnt_off00012b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1