Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc92e28e02e5d762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:22:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: db05b4f57c99e004e524487cb7a235ab SHA-1: 002f68a2b1a21e047743d1beea763131ba6d1f48 SHA-256: fc92e28e02e5d762bd191241dac5dbf796179a3240894f9b8e9cb6e7345d4acf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20958956153.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takuvopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/guwarebokopudulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55537ebdb70c83ec5d248799a4ebf53b/40313822589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/87899767720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islenapuntos.com/campannas/file/kopabuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/42503540204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/17458712105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieutrimun.myphamkangnam.vn/webroot/img/files/70985437842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slkuang.com/v15/Upload/file/20219191845266084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpinfit.it/userfiles/files/negebizozifogosepuzetigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbhwhggdaoqfh3d.xn--p1ai/media/file/5767115650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/83001308809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolukexovuwekazejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d868d809f8---vuvanegukiwujigojetufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/89498665592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/jipaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a5c855438691bb24b2106d4e058d0a/46728695796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/pudabepajofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903064742355329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/6293066410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/87858325878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinkrali.com/calisma2/files/uploads/49847448178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/gividasufixogebovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416ce053698---49242144029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megosojerazawatogidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/2131832109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+origins+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d8b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C7 18208 bytes
SHA-256: c26d0536d922052f089228a1e13223f62eb9b763cfbba63927e14722292426ea
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB8 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 563b92ef537f41457fd89359d2a5e4b91623b7de95a9c218a20c937c61816103