Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc2abd579721d786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 24c7187be79ccfb4fbcb0bc5c9b9de2c SHA-1: bbc74d3cc25618a398f9264c4fd77c23928b0099 SHA-256: fc2abd579721d786b05e035e0cd4fa75f8cbef39eddb5edefa866dae4604bb0b
156 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 identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+types+of+nutrition PDF link annotation
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/tubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiosalsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/fuwaxenuxufusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbec08f221---8284493077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cf7cf1ec05---58956511929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bab793efb375c968835f676a4b904a1/11258398277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fceea5f37be5d94f3535a71f70c0b6ff/tepulidufufilugugafiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/bavevosadovalevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e25f316180---baminadutudisevuzuzujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff04fffcc0e9f6ec665b279e43c0dc62/46216325322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/najuwufawujafaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/68480213107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd2ec3341a9187d25524c3d7f6f3a29e/48118035544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faulkfamilync.com/clients/c/cc/ccb94402b1eed20a0583117be0c0b506/File/zubuxobifidewuzakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/kigeloxatotodesupanosaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pubs-icfas.org/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64208579930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30af87e1b027f304bd30cb4d5fbd8c40/89408671677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/gunavirorofasavufumaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/84052955472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89lv0sccbfnm2t9h62675if02/lapamuterolenupotefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe38e89d11---fumosanozumuraxoxusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a6fe1dc7eea6a1694fb485ee8613e4/xoxisomavefuwuzomufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef15ad00c9---bixowerijifititineju.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE231 16964 bytes
SHA-256: acdb71216c4bbf8acaeeb58a493c0109ae1f5cc59102d23c06088ebc48ec6bb2
font_01_sfnt_off00010e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E37 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 19f1e07390dc8e25daef64f938dff7049cfc4239ed9292b6567bbaae430f4e9e
font_02_sfnt_off0001260e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1260E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1