Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fedf34cf8b3a2fe5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:21:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ed6e91ae7f4d49df8184f69278ad60cf SHA-1: ceb7aea6793b32074c490e794099a43c594e50b6 SHA-256: fedf34cf8b3a2fe585c7e56751e69aeb29ad8e9d0366c92d7c8c409f123e7ac7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161291980546ee---gitilakudagobad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/kudaxinaxapowoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/29027311194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spvtgd2jrnidnnk2is2u2qlss2/24218302369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpp597kqf7tbhap7ur8178v1j4/76363440427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/569f569b5c4486dc7010f339c497874c/85991068102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/vamuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/68471416275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/76051222979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816ade07a6---fowoxulubikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/52789995521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/93102083829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20376898562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfu24ohjvgo6cvlk3hngjpks13/mobemefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/58143821665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0411eaae816a9ac712322da66fa1af98/roserugubokewiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79657486431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ec5e92f61---10113661228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b4duq0eg6nmqiv8rui2i1kdts/fokabefukomirezivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6b882a499b---28103894883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51337294618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210710_110211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/junisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qsh0mjsv8alb0c68g0gp61clj/zoniriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=nda+previous+year+solved+question+papers+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B2 17936 bytes
SHA-256: db7a84675d5ff088449db583480994e508b56b0254e9e81959a182d5faa2b893
font_01_sfnt_off00011239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11239 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A50 10980 bytes
SHA-256: bfdee76da4af32dc4e178d6fbc9fadf20e617f76ab3cd6a522f39639749d86db