Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc2fbdb3eb91d221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:24:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 876c1ee9273d140d05ef9c6795e2d6d1 SHA-1: 8ee93c40efdd57fb3e2bf5210cb3189c98864db5 SHA-256: fc2fbdb3eb91d2217bc4cced9bbb8b1f72cf8475881a7d1296aa4d9582f1f308
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+lcs+mods+android PDF link annotation
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents/files/54654533105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.vegner.com/userfiles/files/20210919_110550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/peguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a1a82e0bbbe308f9e759015aeace287/24606261499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/78236695317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/xilapimupasorovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24936368873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/69267160796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/19604976156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knipia.com/userfiles/file/49621167476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/jukisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/1458476160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/90573586090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/59309922916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storycycle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62089534699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15cc20325789c232751a261af294d6fb/14258793898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f1d8af2675da8db8b2ab5643a3e6e3/3833144294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nufevalexajikorazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigen12.com/userfiles/file/32194872256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/70295514765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9364a0995---49631630579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myagreement.com/UserFiles/file/47473343076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/bulupelevojekuja.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_off0000ceb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB7 10440 bytes
SHA-256: cf219576b7fa19fab60c9882f5e5fffc5b0e41620a3d2bd95d70ebc67c586374
font_01_sfnt_off0000e656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE656 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 8947f78bb75a794cd5a4af0e7489bc69921065f923ab70849a81aec455237cf7
font_02_sfnt_off0001112a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1