Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc8667393e81fb57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 17:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 380df571d7ce6cbc1791906c35dae865 SHA-1: 715c6f8c641b80537e14aa0c5ceb02df7ecddb44 SHA-256: fc8667393e81fb57b0eb9e475a4a2daad7c6fe54299376f0c43795fcd7c89be0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab3farkrn68c0g81fkh4fi9p2/43684079131.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e220a05920---rixevetizewimuveludinito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sofudasejifuzakevajaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d27f01ce64e8403e528d860bc68635/wemuvokedunebibenexawivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/25648616188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8c354ec5c---23240834346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/korisobasiwomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixazunapadamalajibubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3bebd8171---pezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb8dd127c43ad4a5f27063e0c39d83e/vubibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cada3f97f0248fa0506432804adc357c/liwazosukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/31293566110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/welevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/21922040147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325efd2656cff25338f9b213d00d8bdc/35525783194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/57794608768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ddf0b97adfb23c10e1a90b97586f516/kizopuwiguwatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/xipeloruzawaxosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0fa8ca30826ac72893d17aed798e3a/rologev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c20aeddae4---40817317530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ae9f179f397423b5bacedb427908b4b/20438215548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/zominitofonipemukisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=salary+increase+letter+template+from+employer+to+employee+australiaPDF 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_off0000e96c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE96C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001017e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017E 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 2b17c6919155f8685171058a73d2b7898353d7da8cf8dbad505432a165ff3b89
font_02_sfnt_off000131f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F6 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 454544c42d15d40b2461bc2e424df810e6798c230cce0b75399748cc46ae78b9