Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fef6b1a884898dd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 14:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 30fa895cb6b148396e87f2b465c1c746 SHA-1: 81c6a42151e145297aa4702b880830572674b02c SHA-256: fef6b1a884898dd851bc5318ba4a8b5dffd95005ed0b571504c9f9cda3c20e5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hd+cehennem+com PDF link annotation
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/62877531086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/5413067743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/fesewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/85947075489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/xadaxovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/zepalatiwixibejije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/93456734020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eee1f9c5120a365badd680c649ec875/ronesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d643a3c44695ed148369df6c6dc5441/60659718737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837c46d7e11---20880046686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5375jp8qrb672aoqh68i2tsdn/28334911362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa51cc25832---62417827736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d69b61eba3---78276434151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081dcb393db8---18669077149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medlineplus.gov/huntingtonsdisease.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c28c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC28C 4624 bytes
SHA-256: 7e998bcbba2c3ca31752a4eb17967dcbfb3f4557ae1c996e5b7423de84c79721
font_01_sfnt_off0000d220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD220 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 81e8465cfde4cc4a1c1f67dc09f144f324e5b7a90b828c8f00cd0fd1b0d474d9