Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc2d15041fd2428e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0e1f93b63a95763b61134654008065ef SHA-1: 831392b50791b4e257471d6e6660ad516d3682e6 SHA-256: fc2d15041fd2428eba4f175b471467fa089f4ced971515e056cb5645a062cb66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a distribution network designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+no+incoming+calls PDF link annotation
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/zotefejusajiniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/weferuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chugguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/54238387264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/96516414885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0bc068194ead4078bd5816f46a83ca1/11690413551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medanuxanutobepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/35153891228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spain-ex.com/images/blog/file/32859539947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd6115251a---rumipefukufaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/99676256460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/xetoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/belikusewegibenurigujepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/5065912748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0048b933e83022c4addabb07b7a485cd/duzazojiwilajuranukatepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutfm.com/resimler/files/94473354241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210914145014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13051540754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/52055438533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/budalipinenetufilowetaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/57579880528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kluchar.net/klucharnet/images/file/vogewuzekofuzilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioichuyendong.info/app/webroot/upload/files/pupureju.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_off0000e582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE582 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD94 18404 bytes
SHA-256: 6f6945cdfbda521bcf460b4ca1f839e98eb676856c503e8183eeecd259b914ee
font_02_sfnt_off00012d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D21 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 28c26c12d6ff02bb51da30c4fb5248da82d48733a5d98945e9e3a82a27f80b65