Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc3b5751f5f9458d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 09:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 77e2910fc7a82d21128073a830036a54 SHA-1: 78b9329ba6996730c41f4564130b65151b5aff87 SHA-256: fc3b5751f5f9458dbabfa4fc9fcf06920a26ea510ce84d8c833e9adb44b84a5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body and extracted URLs suggest a lure related to game cheats, directing users to compromised websites that likely host further malicious content. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload directories reinforces the phishing and malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carrom+pool+aim+hack+without+lulubox PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7ff849bc9---dikenaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/178a807e26cb234c4e9839eddd7a5905/30312025019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba70e61f40c---88846615394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd38343f4f---88894791346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec1b626705---53457192111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5617db634a9ad57d48a88a2b0291c1d/wejemorofebirosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b595cc56a14---93404625559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c472d3a12c7fda68de2f4031fd1ac20e/melofutoviwuvexupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729ba6d6890---63200306950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960c26a5d0d---puzefinoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0bc10cef2---25959751209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de26260186af29ce3c36d04225447a4/41289844897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/gajadodomodelulifamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7v7fd1nc3mgghjoi8resqvqqn1/mosufuposoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14m4o6k07nnbnl9fa4g34iouq8/2230200436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rgj61vefgd34j5cs4maakr12p/xenuniwapiwado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/panevemasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD072 2996 bytes
SHA-256: 91c65d4daef29bab276e56b606f9c5013e4f13bc29c78e9eee33dd87ab02342c
font_01_sfnt_off0000db36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB36 5264 bytes
SHA-256: fb72caef922e7b531ce81ed2f5942561b824f1dbc82f17bdb6205f2b49b6a837
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFB 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 592898c2ce9a2bb73549857f150d3ab2f856c276100c1cebbdb78ddc68fe9e15