Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa3c5c49c661dec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:22:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5f9f1c54d8e1748a70c233a852be528a SHA-1: 529315091ba952bab5bf317e45161b6347b83c46 SHA-256: fa3c5c49c661dec52716b5ef65bad835e1d1ee577b28731f3769b6ec19c28a6e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a high-severity heuristic indicating a browser extension installation lure. This suggests a social engineering tactic to compromise the user. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, which likely serve as download locations for malicious payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337c53d38cb---jinezagapunato.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/31731930222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrzion.com/data/userfiles/files/4071900519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/69382853490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b76685d2d---giravilejuziredelewanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/mavatizikeruxukefewaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdhmladavozice.cz/userfiles/file/wubakuvejerimovoweruzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613508a77e2b3---61778945865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ru/upload/wozimonaluzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/fegiviwetaxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/dikuroguvaradonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/zanofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9d9ebf79d---pokanafizemobisoxowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/lerimejubiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/gatorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rais.bg/uploads/file/95556385778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/kunerevexurunebusorilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/1287906332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/zopasosipejokepawovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinners-party.de/media/file/70207741795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/7141989178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/94525812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/zokawojiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/13071797015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=eshareserver+apk+for+android+tvPDF 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_off0000df2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2C 10688 bytes
SHA-256: f30126667f54c20bd6a15a1c6118d42f204b060cbf683301da7f293a9ab5c1d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB3 19740 bytes
SHA-256: a26b982ef3359e119a3c9c7cb63c0d7121f10be61b4498451928b8b8e3bed623