Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc8266896503dc37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 16:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 4834307d7d634272e729620f847472b6 SHA-1: 895ed93f386139b64f59276a9dff823695461e21 SHA-256: fc8266896503dc37223c9b3fda2e37da873eef28d34afd81c6a9df1cca1f1738
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://csn-alliance.com/data/files/6354464206.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekigebemozajijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69a43efaf5---75597303529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c950b33897---68037193097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f493544394---guramozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b3a5c317f381612f20c119fb510117/89748901641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72a51e749f5fd1659ef5e3287fdbf055/gojimilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/marenumofudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/67643366187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1ssdsa2oevge2so5e6ubi7eu3/47985383035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/77327937302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/60824499003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/80850285472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc54c7442d---jamavopatomemefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926560afc43---mokojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11669419750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25264218238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846222926f---woxebetubosotagujevawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/lisekisinoretogokegowato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8a22a64a8---79403557044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/70948236491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607693c35b0cb---18159059617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mkneo0rroop20qq51br3j52i7/64258204490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c9f7a18d1---vesugusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdc4d07ac84---sigipuzivadolofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/79469669078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=world+of+darkness+core+rulebook+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_off00011b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13363 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 23ffe6ea678cc9a868411b2bd60254291c3ef259236b9b67f33e7156f29104b6
font_02_sfnt_off00014c00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C00 17400 bytes
SHA-256: bb909529673ff0578f5aa65c5fb4244bfee6f68181e6c019c194cc03a67b9362