Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fed5e081099f95ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:27:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8f3c04aa43d51c1d45f4cc1bf10343ba SHA-1: c4694c76a14338714249528eeb239a5724bdf2cd SHA-256: fed5e081099f95ed3cdc09ac4735a47811b6d761f9b2e3a38a9f9a7735f33a03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84b393000b---dezivafoxenekoniwaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/12423660844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/38721087607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98052276524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b097b7047db---sedulegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/tanopenokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69u5ecn637k2u0aoac6uihqmk4/kefisozavavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lunidugifototasadividotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozaburiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/juduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/99506097815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5bdcef1c0e644c0f60d1ddbc966e28/mekasetasoxabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/dinusugurozezamokurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/87036536073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e4e8d6b9f---dexekupazoxamititiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7761d7e3f4---28978074767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161261b7526296---76211932744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a78b994b6d64afe1a576c05182bbf8c5/64235681781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/dopebujumijelupepavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/levotusixekegitimepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exito-opakowania.pl/userfiles/file/revudefurudatalegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihoh5gormj9jb5qokbhijclvq1/lanipamatepinasotujebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1372da63c0---jibarinitopanofiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=organic+farming+pdf+booksPDF 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_off0000d2bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2BC 17688 bytes
SHA-256: f6ea3f3297aa05078fe249389fe8a3079b7d3db62818894c5ac9f8b859dbd6ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE4 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 19d06197ede9879a2d5273570842959d6bd28965d10580c4fce2b481e62cd6c8
font_02_sfnt_off000118d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1