Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc7106a52cdec3fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 11:38:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9d202960f3428d526725ef0cdf3494e5 SHA-1: 0ee3f0204a956785522267b4da168ba14c0050bf SHA-256: fc7106a52cdec3fbfb101e39c617221db2dd3564f1e93319485b0257f3d46db0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recommended+power+supply+calculator PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161460f578b23e---42502969085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/83095674584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/23080879975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/57978409065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81669978561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94151138938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zurepijitukiserafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/tifavowenupagaputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b0d5bda811---94191860809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/5201571765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/xovijale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/73934940692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edaf2c2188183739cbcd28984ae2501f/22255957397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinnituskozpont.hu/files/milawuzixonanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/zexinomezugafugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/38147927926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/17112335661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/5204358740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e14328ecc6---65058207844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/1142129341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/7309705807.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_off0000ad2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD2B 16472 bytes
SHA-256: b6710e2ecd505e0d4ad00f9adc155565bab9f6139dd22bdd2b6dff33e07a53d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD726 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 465632635dce84081643ab66172512c00a444fa55467a2833fd41405c736e582
font_02_sfnt_off0000f090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF090 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1