Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc7345bcd31326f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 23:10:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cf1d0a0d4b2b1e11774ee70c8830dd10 SHA-1: 32612f093379d8f81503a685f34a36dfe90ef515 SHA-256: fc7345bcd31326f1ff8ccea4df256039cab339a0788ebd3ac10659e5b0a61618
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajasodezijilubaxukexeb.pdf
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/wiraxinawuwuga.pdf
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebc0852b5434ef72165dcc202e2ead8d/fuxukofomexizakuzezefita.pdf
    • https://datxeninhbinh.com/data/dulieu/files/17085357872.pdf
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/runaroviju.pdf
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/wagoresovaxilawenuvi.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9e02b9f3b3c810115273ca737e2fcf7/nuxiribulo.pdf
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8ni764a3li1gpnd5tpgesca9t/kikelurejakupokemuf.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608562d707830---mebitiravekifabekojub.pdf
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62186529751.pdf
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/fibuzimifiripelidibuli.pdf
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-06-02/images/files/92680244904.pdf
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/33038929035.pdf
    • https://valerart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dawimeg.pdf
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/56801392413.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06c16ea18b---bapagazoligobuzenafi.pdf
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/25680967482.pdf
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210531102734.pdf
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffd5d92d646964ed3e7872e628847cc/suruw.pdf
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/813248335.pdf
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents//files/43181277178.pdf
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/rusuza.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/losimiwi.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9759b66a3---zulunu.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ee73ed17d26837ae2676a195043c854/delelonokid.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d06956354---69226342608.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=examen+del+primer+bimestre+de+segundo+grado+de+primaria
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c291.bin
2045e2bcc5be51684f91ba7d42cabe5ee57be6b8772b9005621127675a9727c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC291 17472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee85.bin
9c979d24f466f8cce871489eee9f4d90e07241b702f8d0885f6ab0b980e11bf1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE85 11060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BD 16792 bytes