Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc40147e029ccc15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7a8c557cd0d6ab4e4befec92d39dc054 SHA-1: 51a4581777db65330298496321068079ece6640f SHA-256: fc40147e029ccc15afff04bc219ca6f8cb96143de5eb71b2a59587c65366c9de
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document impersonates a cloud document lure, aiming to trick users into clicking on embedded links. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a dropper or redirector to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+pdf+files+in+chromebook PDF link annotation
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/wamiwuzevetire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/64145482301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/2433039534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/dikifabosigosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/88327311204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/79081344050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/62308485360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/29557967884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/megekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4e840233d---xogovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///pibepulanewakoduren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/zefutepolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikosapezuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/muwabajejupalose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d800a9a0aea---dubifevixavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/gejewepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/pefetemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/62734173242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ataru.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91743865460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/56117700897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/69108614427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a0cea69f0---tudajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9028cb4f1b0cc9cdbe141a6c033f33ab/31491341954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e756b7cc187f0bf850bdfa60318431e/lagevaguwuv.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_off0000d981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD981 16244 bytes
SHA-256: a13739d0f779f6abb01b3d23799cf507371bd9cb6de0b6d0139fc07f64679dbb
font_01_sfnt_off000102f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F0 11032 bytes
SHA-256: ff18306877b0773737e11e3d82866e8f7acd9fce34498d7f37c28d6aa2c44947
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1