Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fefb87f8aa967428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: be90a9f525b50d553e353e791aed4a25 SHA-1: 63efb7558957e00427a1ba405634f1967d320262 SHA-256: fefb87f8aa967428f7f1014623e2bd3a0240d0427ee465f0e1a003f85d80dba2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics point towards a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90fcc545f7---buwegafezovigakib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://marklaliberte.com/fckupload/file/87494267081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/kepike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa58d1cb651---4487367001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/74363748759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48cfa96311805c83a70c34ee5eb0ec4a/80424396310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/weletaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9du9uheo9tnujmbekckevifr3c/goxagigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/93636646882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/porotekavoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dql1iuhn3b9o9aedvv7j3h3c0r/74775745340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hortherbpublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/40453361050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/pitawawesenekexuxulanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mkruv7vjpgosbp5a6vl4i21fm/26039971669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607507ad26287---15228440364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/kepepojetexikasudapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db4853bcde---latovizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06463e03620e6b77c66df19ccd984870/bonejijigoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3bc8e6b78c01152a9ef9dbd7053924/43868270722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4a7cbf1b0---50447078356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sname.org.tw/sname/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb0fegaq21o1f14ad9ha32p1on/66545646702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc12d41853dcab6db9003df9117284a/15691433995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+civilizations+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00013ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000156f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156F9 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 503853b1593735d200e97f15196beb5a85a3fecb81e18144a116b0aa2587858b
font_02_sfnt_off00016fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FA9 21720 bytes
SHA-256: 33585608f535d78de42e5711ac7da32ac6bdbefa61dd06427918873b1164dab5

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