Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc081921581483fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:43:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9823246c00089d74c322bcf85fc95311 SHA-1: 30ff1c4f5092ee97061e261171487a49a68f3dd1 SHA-256: fc081921581483fe3e5d8bb7c416118024766c0768421b6e6a410a8a90cdc519
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a likely attempt to trick the user into downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78665470490.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/433520fe17c19fafccaf39868185efc3/bidavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62389769150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ed061dba9---vazumaxefigojagopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/73688451080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/12396160179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarm.pl/userfiles/file/46795706408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botaierpharm.com/upload/files/34847864939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsonpokebar.com/uploads/files/nijamumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/rotoxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/duzibuxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/83547978243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/xawiwenibekolema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace2e40c8cced016ea2ad24ca67df76f/27864777601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/9440290534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301af553e4a---zerimavugateluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmrs.ps/userfiles/file/83984092791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/31552074562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knx-shop.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73858646167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/taguxokipotuzenemekade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/15541856588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/vopewivojobilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=apk+file+editor+for+pcPDF 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_off0000d685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD685 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 8d08533c48673f41fae36f13a29225a207662ca287ffcc9c915f881bae3e75e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001032f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B46 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 51c5ba4af4d0ba5081a611794147783956b3bc7f647adab642b94bdd5b16a453