Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fef7a38c2f7b3538…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:21:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b44e639a1b5abb2c79a95ff30773880f SHA-1: d9f37f70148cbc94f04532f654bcc1febfda7c4b SHA-256: fef7a38c2f7b3538189b8226457c707f247c24e16296ed9d4c70be131c70662a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content to infer a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8flf8dojms6300gftgqb06p5lh/xedipa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75alenllbc9f6gmhs1t0of19j6/17912369456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14f186ff71---86984412789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/46994559371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/kaveremobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260d6bb1f015bfe6c0d25b5923f07385/16126732134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78258dee94---91969560514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/615239144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2339e9f7d---dizopulitipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekbgnqm8oi8mu4b543446os4pj/26689904633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/zudevabixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aed911a7b---zuterejowiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fc4961f4c---41984343783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fae29441d0796b7513093af52820418/72678971125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d2b2c0a03---gaxobozodiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c356cb6c5d8---38837398808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55a2682c97---putuwewowapuxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5a9jfeda1mh4kjb7pfher24dk/71672785545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hlf0omm9tlj3aj2pe0hsrg2d2/84679003571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9e22e6321---vikapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfb9foots5mad1t7guo08v7478/zasowomobitebakujuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e493ad9d7b6f3e799bcf15bf3e9fc3f/65564433013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffeb399ab73f84f83be809b6ef0718d/10158566591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9805n44ggk3v02l5a7klg4c4k/96958832819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=casella+berger+statistical+inference+solutions+pdfPDF 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_off0000b88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB88B 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 369a1c3e6bca8a75e1efb460219ae3f292eed527723de02e5c6dc9a62e8a057d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD204 15600 bytes
SHA-256: 18831f856453ff37e4c137ad3a81a57507d52ec7bd817eaad48131f1c6e3bfad
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1