Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc8e5818e76b1737…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 09:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9f3d79bcf4ce003845fc9b2bfcbe7f2f SHA-1: ce8719f43fdc333f88c18d1a9c6dbf849c1d5fb2 SHA-256: fc8e5818e76b173738d8b5d263d13f2d575792052891c75a75709c8e9ca55342
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are typical of malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exerc%C3%ADcios+resolvidos+de+identidades+trigonom%C3%A9tricas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/xetivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2ee0239a4---33991762382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/senifuwegufupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50af332190---59416376361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608820e2944b2---31229320388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/98070438510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32307b9415---jixamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cbe619733---62343675489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/12212335843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fed22878105cd6bc546ba95c9f228f5/60433648226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a342414f2273831d68abec8411b28a6/88886761784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c15477e22---40556440601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/26791860775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rltclassof1970.com/clients/8/8f/8ff9f19c840b982a6efda18ba8bb483c/File/soguwaxufoxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/mupaliduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/fepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/32543532579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/83344238074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/kovowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonfamilyreunion.org/clients/b/bd/bdaf0a3c19eb5f10f0519c747c117e37/File/85174527267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd8ca0d9188---dadewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tovatifikuxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/86662739087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cea18bb3fa---55093952624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/96773883193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/wapiwakedasamemogidufo.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ed54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED54 19960 bytes
SHA-256: 75e2d83cabc08878f5fe51e3c6f143f7843d29e01b0c12942ef4f635ea8176bd
font_01_sfnt_off00011f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F34 11332 bytes
SHA-256: e2c193f6ef138c2bd40706efcf4048778e1dd6dc1bc6ade3d475466e837cfe4a
font_02_sfnt_off00013956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13956 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1