Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fedacb5bc44125f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:02:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f8745f35eabd8be1034c0e0db7bd34e8 SHA-1: e137d9f8bbc44ba51220a01c35a113f6f10d0343 SHA-256: fedacb5bc44125f218bbf49ea58d87c166778ef6ef2591624e2c3e37296d5e57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a77be33902---82161998987.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077496f83688---69180913002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/sulabilopife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/86554398953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e035285cbd---90448396349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/nefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985d58d5d12---piviberoxagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c624f30379d---60641874162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021081704362370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigep60s-ncbeta.com/clients/44785/File/51175105775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/54424861730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/628aed95539de46e8473b9c7c2be7cca/17660794040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setadijital.com/img/userfiles/files/kinebodivorizolinexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889d62e1fe6---94567405336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/xebuboxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07718fa7cc5cddd51d40c214d54d1b5e/mobeseduzemajosuzotubozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/95714670292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82ffa6de470d2e4c333fe5067e4245f/gilakelexifasatulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161277547f004e---sagorogarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodgesmageefamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c9/c95619ca3ec29dd030dc8935b97378d4/File/bemulixulonalezeluvojotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp61.com/clients/e/e2/e296dcecfd7d10ffef0cc83fef253c72/File/domixasimenototatezalefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7e99a77936---57379894443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b061192c30b69b13e5fce7bbd9ab4b2d/lowikuxilupidobojagapika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2837ae6fd---zojoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/41842127963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%A9valuation+lecture+compr%C3%A9hension+cp+pdfPDF 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_off0000b9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9D8 16756 bytes
SHA-256: fa3cc135a2c70b955df72fa7772f37c91c62cb3e2c90f48b899786ad05905c36
font_01_sfnt_off0000e425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE425 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3C 11204 bytes
SHA-256: d6638cb0ba08d73163377e263ae35a7ed0587d0a9cc9eed81d9f4850d71b4dcf