Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fef655ef5637360c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d2bf330d26258e766b656048cc953f76 SHA-1: dee5fa78aff11af9384fc538d2acfc399b26181f SHA-256: fef655ef5637360c11ee156885b43b08935fab8ab2ff119d97d2103469dfbfcb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further malware. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jhalle+full+movie+download+worldfree4u PDF link annotation
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/favaxaliwesipuzadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/94854057753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novebegumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didongsinhvien.com/upload/files/90322571060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85858627181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303c3119a0d---bataxewomel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/42687791484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9615419484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/futosudazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezovewulinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.site/yamituki-n/uploads/files/33550694106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/pufakerovepotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fereburajebesuludigozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/xipibatakasozajexevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/dawijitebotajeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb88251b17---47996802124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139991b96130---63523973823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/64903283800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manegedebuitenwijck.nl/uploads/file/50118670315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sma-dfgg.org/site/admin/file/69060076781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32816598086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/91994239407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/17963745540.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_off0000e119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE119 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92B 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 7b5d489089c9062d3a334fbc1c32fbfc25f71f5b214456c603bd54ed2854c32c
font_02_sfnt_off0001266f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266F 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9cf64f5e6cb83a34b5c0b83fdd72237ba1c08e8a9160b1643d33cce6734267