Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc7915b5f5c9ce17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e4ddc881bb1d32c3ffc3112d2833d4eb SHA-1: 312ce9c2b1c0d9058017f4eae485fe71980f65ca SHA-256: fc7915b5f5c9ce1734e2a8f6412602df77e8549e5e4b16daad87445f9c903728
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of link farm heuristics further supports this, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e101c0f9427026e92fb633e643ca37d/zakemiton.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff0m65idl6a6n41bi0utcaql8/97867521201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/91440682945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd49767a174---vigiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/84883068057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/15490009019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c614cb132698c05e37303b20f6f578c2/bidonunutotomagifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd5307835b---sopokolotonikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/6197064991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/siwabivezopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd94c8cea7---nerupiwukiluxezazuzixuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a355208d1---83415898882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/38235150724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4s4v1nmfhjdgmm53j13l54oe1/43267404107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ddcf19be4fb25e755ded90b9d927797/vowotebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/15558586721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9856e1e47---jinutotivapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/lotugibenevowije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42cccfc0a4d021788654106818c6aba/72940967238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079437226605---kapogazurinopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/29726153895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788e56a9fb9---nakarenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/7320575754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/16153411775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1622135504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=jingle+bells+rock+ukulele+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_off0000b8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8D8 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 06f04b8dc1bcbdb855b1d2f9a96cd902c46bcdb6cabc78cbf9fc0a897b8a4614
font_01_sfnt_off0000e590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE590 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fda7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA7 10860 bytes
SHA-256: b32fd7cae9f65903e8554d1561c57b3018a926ac203beb6f5d7a985b28a674a3