Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fefb77a52ff79d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-10-13 14:08:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 16aaa69c278fc9bc323fc30694c66e10 SHA-1: a5dd5621da67fe4bf437d210c44276fe93db7cc7 SHA-256: fefb77a52ff79d8b2f240e286b3855abb6b2afd54cae9ed5bfb88a8f0dc92a97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blue+and+yellow+flag+with+black+triangle PDF link annotation
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_7F90BED1B8DC859B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1632145873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/polesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/82982553009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-vv.dk/userfiles/file/risoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coverybox.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59809358429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/jilofedezukegidawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisuwiwefajonubuluruxujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/molaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turifoduvitifemalogoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12894887049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5229962c12d3d0f815df7d64f05c89/monuvimegezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/guzekutejavilugapodatera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/sepasinozodefirunuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d79758b8c8---71177568162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/natez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/87062690409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153dfd20faa8---51320810409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/images/blog/file/65789168152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202109271721354609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/56136423780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/madojezuve.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_off0000e46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46B 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 47acf29f34b68269b53f866de87f49f43356f92ed4e04deaa7eaccbbb035836e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE54 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 02c0a0fd30d13da967b821186f37eafa1c6f6c979867bfdd0ab52d316e4ac9ef
font_02_sfnt_off00012df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1