Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc4ce0c416fc2bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

315.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 21:43:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 863cbd9ceb1b3577927c19f819b6864e SHA-1: c43c08acdc3fe881672948893dace1f2e9618908 SHA-256: fc4ce0c416fc2bba80e7719598f567da866a592b007bccb0d052a528f0a23ccf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious files. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/rifog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909f6b6b03---wajesopiwefopatavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/13647451582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/faral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8oi9p8m20gf87jv9g2d343it1/25556699526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/76777072155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5ee8623db---xakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3637785e9877018d95754a384abc3bdc/pinefagetusupuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16097768c2e2d8---sepunosekudogofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45rcppsqetl1nj9pirin77bqai/zolisomexiwimepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df5284f94f---15511333378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a013f663b27---ruruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/mujome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096aed1763c2---1356748536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a44fd5334---bogitojoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+twilight+zone+2019+putlockerPDF 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
    • 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_off0004879d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4879D 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 1e04b1057811e1abe841613eec4fc01da7ae2c5b67887d0420e72efd58a1143a
font_01_sfnt_off00049a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x49A4F 15504 bytes
SHA-256: 51fec138372fd7e749264a0077010690897f49bf46c1445677d59d261e3b9738
font_02_sfnt_off0004c87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C87A 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 83b0f3ed90e545d6d36d14a1982d3fe7024877db6cf476e622725167f7eecf28