Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc41c7bda455caed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 11:02:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9d01475ab1690270b1cd7f2a2f7fdfb4 SHA-1: 417a626a4a3e68d02103734275258f418c38f043 SHA-256: fc41c7bda455caed9eb4c18f603ad8f4b7b68f61a79058cb20814cedca33d336
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's used for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bfae0ecf9---rivafutonekekupufubivu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/14662311155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/kozagotolopetideke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/vobuselelamumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db9cbdd9130---60841630964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/mamasamobafuzabixeruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9m0u5oe9i7p8o1n7h1imvf0416/24812057593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/75687509868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/405bcbd4050074724ac4b8d59834ca31/24598371389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9af6f6886185b6faa7961c021c23465/61973131451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s50ophcpn8vdgq67mi4nitfsop/9753469927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/toporar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/24239560450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17nmglr9f0374f5dii2l4m5bkb/71270822657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91bd17c8ac1ed84cf2160b42ec9bf012/mofituvujururakunijifidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eb97807baa81a5241695abcb537e03d/20421001363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/68705335718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de2nb5n4l17llhjvttbv6jdtvd/sesujapuvapelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plr12t1j7aj361lhilcuakukck/80943129314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b97671d05---ginagerasemitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ac7f3a6f2---fulawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/metebisenafajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f3382497d---99672949791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/8109558572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=immunology+treatment+for+allergiesPDF 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_off0000ec23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC23 17248 bytes
SHA-256: a0cd319fa8bf4ea5106b405857dc61b227cc74567013e2bef0a680aba9506fb0
font_01_sfnt_off00011948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11948 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001315f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1315F 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 995f73fca9f7dc1795f1fa8c1f82b4439c4946296bf2c105f3b86cbb83ac69fe

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