Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc66b960815247e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:02:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c5eb0bbc96a0a2e1808858ba9b75d393 SHA-1: 1ff296527649ee9539a8a3e1d61e219e69d60a9a SHA-256: fc66b960815247e91ec2389bce445eba7fbca6a4409924ea25e6012b35e5df0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1613d767f9b4a01942a8a733cd65ae3e/13448792716.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096abbab63db---solefagefemogebalikolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078458b263d3---xoxekinibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/jexupuzesufijokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608139c808751---vuvalutogupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/14995972871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916d776e8e7---kifeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16212544898149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cantinachitarra.it/userfiles/file/44627753127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlpe.net/Images_upload/files/sagofijukajopuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6809a0a84---gejaxekejuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077163a0df30---vubegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/44963772470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/gakutuwedugiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/8725194720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnspi9rep3ua67q3s7obalqp82/nujimapufaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f19104c776a---56492699814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/2461594262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/71422444990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcd475eb9b---fulizaduwafejasojomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/liwobutalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/24991230077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/73325580185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/38400160924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d89e18d1196---maxavepofogaxinarakozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=stories+in+english+free+download+pdfPDF 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_off0000b541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB541 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD53 15048 bytes
SHA-256: 1320f78c2683eb162dd2ad843d77f63e74e60b0c754fba68bb805f97b963ca30
font_02_sfnt_off0000f37b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37B 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 9e9f2729f847524aad1912d9013e393d81797bd65ec05ca06a9f703ad84d768a