Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc89cdae53fcc316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-05-19 10:17:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0555903d9e095356e32e92236709dc3d SHA-1: 1d97da34352bc3b5cfc27f26ac1503985408bbf0 SHA-256: fc89cdae53fcc316418ff6afe96adec30a7021412fc78c2bfe208d2cb8dfe339
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to various external sites. Several of these URLs point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libros+de+psicolog%25C3%25ADa+deportiva+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/74396156183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/6170607223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bd7f07d35---89255405051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd1031b091---19673535084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9027b88dbc8406501cac173cf74d314e/5155979967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6812173d733a9fcef2ab062152a1fa4/34538541872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e66e8b416e---75850334113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/36817303329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8b0jips85lj7q2mk55222kh43/82385807524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/21217538645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729e16ce795---guminag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ec4eed87f8c2b3a557817f0d801fdfd/85381669835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b456d0658a10c2be6573517d0ee7ec/97149446802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ede77050119d51bf4af32e40406ce9a/xoxejivuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2dbb8e74f---kasaloxagowufapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdd529c0ab1d10125f009cc32b3bb20/14278736391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4E 5200 bytes
SHA-256: f453b1775e9f816b12c0b435aedebaf8c6e113c566bf8fea8f745fb5fa39cc6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED11 11712 bytes
SHA-256: 0020d70bc4cf8e0d9bfd3ec0c2c6d56e1fb73a7f345b6b10abe0482037acca49
font_02_sfnt_off00011324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11324 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34