Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feee72f43fb62ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:01:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 54f44e579a2d7b83e3aedf0b203304c3 SHA-1: 7928a72aba7a87fd275f1a0705b57593a2cb1b20 SHA-256: feee72f43fb62ea04f4fb8309e26bc500f0fe87d2d6d6d56a1ba8db438480e21
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 links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of multiple PDF files hosted on various domains point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/renevapagoxar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/tawalofesonulimatiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th8hnapor7dkpeuhfn85j8e83r/97214442696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac908be88c18e6745ed97ed6b191b43d/nunatagipexekura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55a493dfe254a0fdde34b0d1b0d7c7b/subozikiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8vffgce42ns0u0u00s5f8iqh5/nutuvevixategodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gaa7sm1su65bdpi7lnouii9h85/wunubaluzozenigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladna.pl/user_images/file/15989097637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748e420bbaa---zidoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upvq7v2qpa8pjevk902vcp10n8/fevatuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/buvuxubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zenaxidemafowonipefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65928457727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45d5d8158b45dfd5d7d5c7371718ee2a/69967871500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0cb0c9174---22366934070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/35809572602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/nogejikuwisufet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29333693642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/xesarunutedemifiveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/kebakavepimoxomoloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/zidimilusejuzoponubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d92730def23---68932309261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d3094d10d---83054521225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sample+resignation+letter+due+to+toxic+work+environmentPDF 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_off0000efbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBB 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0c5834844fce43ec30172d6080e71eda147208301c4b881d9aeef059aab2d8
font_01_sfnt_off00011d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D79 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 0e1c79d38b1d400c14e17f3abf91a53c653779c8a20a5bc7e04805c39b895334
font_02_sfnt_off0001381a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1