Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc074a544c7752fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 05:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9638aace94c68c65a6687e0151549c17 SHA-1: 505e76bbaf142669fea3a753cb94cfd5da0a9e55 SHA-256: fc074a544c7752fb6266ea2000254d6f94c0774b0b0f927873495ff53302c460
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure, possibly related to 'instructions' as indicated by the URL parameters. The presence of multiple compromised upload links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nj+927+instructions PDF link annotation
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e35b3e1a5fb04d9acf3d3720d49f7b/retuxowomosoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ee67a04f474a34226650cae00fa826/ridikikapopinirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96b7a0242b5c90f6270eacaee0b21289/xuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c549841c79f---nozutabewokamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083521995214---xomufowoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/siwotepunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df069e97975c2bcb751778926162bbbf/24763289286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-6/20210606010249185707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ae0a590df---mebipoveburukekunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0ae018e69---83220537983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9258c021100485c3f6abff6a17ceb62/8109173370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd20e6342283c2814ff4354591c13c2a/93207336437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mdc5fq8a146l6lurvtegtv202/lozamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5abc81c3a3bd7105ea9860a36c9f0c/88982184012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/koxeniwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.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
    • 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_off00013314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13314 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 8f72ea29b7e5147beaa6200b2f7fcb327ded327184983a04121837902b91908c
font_01_sfnt_off0001441d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1441D 12388 bytes
SHA-256: 7cbc04df48fd7a32a182af27aa7097f40d660aa3e4af7090ed21bf0ac4d9254d
font_02_sfnt_off00016e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E98 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 1ffca1ef16be5e2ec436e77f9211a88ad3199dc781cb76600401cc2e2c7dce6d