Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc3fc9c072e153b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 87e5202310740e3ff67b1c6c0eee5e9d SHA-1: d90cc787636348f703d726d279e7a150800e1d8e SHA-256: fc3fc9c072e153b95f7542e16eb4cdb4edd216b79b5f1b1f49e70a30d245fb89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572d5397657be0c5af8084f25c816ce1/lazanewajetiludevewotokil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/783f241c513bcf1e882bbec2385041d1/xopariwotikapufube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/zedupetarojafubibaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtlj4e3hflgip5hu0f1d2iohnk/musijamerasexupatusugawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/sareve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/449264306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lfd6dbftrv2cm50tffgtd09bd/11962723630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a7675acf2---21707378048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr09lubv819cv4ml2io3js8gpq/guliporomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogukujedatotimedeguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/winusakakefumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b12db3ed6d68a72bd4a2b13fc5d7c2e/losojewesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb2a7eccc261eaf0ccf01e63452edb82/73639873629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dac4d10fee0---66744227070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871c57ce0dc---35111192235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442f9b69ec0ed70f841284f9e8f5f04c/97940123719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/mowimuwijasebesowewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e849f642e2---57706505974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdce4e494d---mevijiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081aaffa88f4---lixigunuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e3ccdc47694ade9ae36cceb2911124e/55026996200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/9143971580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cs0fjs047fc3dmc3q6fbdu0lgq/jadixami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kidekajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=criterion+portrait+of+a+lady+on+firePDF 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://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_off0000e3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C8 18588 bytes
SHA-256: d6105c5e93c8474bfa58f9812ae4ba568a9a4faec9c4162d2221d935e7e3c5f5
font_01_sfnt_off0001137a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B91 10468 bytes
SHA-256: ec54f58268da36459fad0c4ba71d9bb3d30a34f47d269ee43f5d1ff08fabe73d