Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fee4fccd7601ee5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:20:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: df6a2931264acd8fb06b3e3233e3e496 SHA-1: 9fd8eeafa91e49f27c0c8aae98e1c60b8b5278da SHA-256: fee4fccd7601ee5af17c473e7d54bec6b2526af948787b2d4dcedccc3ad281ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or appear to be part of a link farm. The presence of these URLs suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=whatsapp+messenger+lite PDF link annotation
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///rafeguzozatozanojugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/83976186742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pjteam.hu/uploads/14150371245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/39371974470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiladeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoaudytor.pl/userfiles/file/69770897924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/9902761078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19dnt4lunanqpfhi4amsvrjas2/76111975481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b2e95461f---dujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cimikjf0ledsgb2qkrlanevq2j/86623693194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/duxukufazokasulodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/rutijogozukadelurokivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajukigugapaxizipamarele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skmsm.com/userData/board/file/44939692154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4890634421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonellchem.com/upload/files/83647621589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testpensija.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonirejurafuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/13520794835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/84075214126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/pupajasavoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/jesudetesesawosavawuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tevotire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/744v35kr6id9kh5ud0ldi52oj6/37218419022.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_off0000d50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50A 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 9e52ab2b904d9dd621e8da69e8fb0909c2e6a325332860b07af5a20841724fa8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF0 17412 bytes
SHA-256: f36ad6f0f81bff66dc45b09823a6bd511849e6da1fdbcf46b4c4ea44e2b4f38e
font_02_sfnt_off000119ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1