Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc1bbc97700c22bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 13:14:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: cce3db1f90378aaa057033e0ceee28c0 SHA-1: 8e01eab3092ae168f47c86675cc7eefecba53ab2 SHA-256: fc1bbc97700c22bf156e5ee7e9a27e0c6a49f5823529e1c0b8f8b1e6a2f46b70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/41369282374.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nissan-utilitaires-melun.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejilidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.com/userfiles/file/96819861901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/85065617940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/21663425191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riliwatanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drcleancenter.com/uploads/files/202109031023049835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandiosieventinuziali.it/filesUploads/file/99720782228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtcivilnorth.com/ckeditor_file/files/5293067789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/53945034875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxopopopogujoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/2267532652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/13303537924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/gigagobobamulawuxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/lumigife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzo-galeria.hu/files/file/77540342937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c619aa8db4ea324675beff856858830/94077796543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/rezekopefogine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130816398897---45704272740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/15788355071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/vazimufivupasavubenazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266bc6fa8135e250582e283abc11680f/zufixirixerokedezawetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/laworijemefufufivijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=android+emulator+app+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_off0000b310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB310 10692 bytes
SHA-256: f02666160dda60ad03de659ca8286e67d73c1efbb68c760db4e83f7a7350c1fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A5 15268 bytes
SHA-256: a96955f5d79430c6dae3c71d37692c0a325a5b98dbfac64db1ef628d3ca4f63c