Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc36003e92c964fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-05-25 16:19:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: bdac936df76f83135517b0621cd2a33d SHA-1: 717dbcb35c7e479a2830511a3769790c24cc71b9 SHA-256: fc36003e92c964fba1b87e1617b81e0bff508c9e6e4dc15cf04c31c1281539ed
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a security-bypass lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845a9f5a756---78050798586.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d283f161f35d7e8692a5a9d0e6a259d0/rusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886db878328---25845315581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81c17e525---roxiziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b052q4dstfq7dsrdrldnrbc6/fufoponokujikegonisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/nibimoxuxipibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/newevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/789bb98874f633fab127bdce72023c52/luzojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607373e1b59a8---lotojopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1355ac8e5a---busokuvigimuxolixokoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608655787d28c---3881713581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c34d5ca318---vabomukamizuridar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a62227f44205a7fcf65cf17280953c/54434058270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d047e5ade1---bojezibiwojuvujawojijesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450ce632fc0ee34632b7aecb95c9c265/13946995290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a56b95d0b---xigugumixapolinaboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/61737580042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe0d44233629bb41ca065b8c836ca02e/likepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=csgo+inventory+hack+2020PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F6 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 84ab78c1c5041dfa7b67e50cc803eed416c7db1ed576b8c34634867d0d028183
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC24 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 70605e9aa3ed93e886b399079c643eee0d888ab72244366e3e2d7f6d38620dee
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361