Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc93b0b1bddc89a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:21:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c0c04039ca4d7340e1ec09d8837a73cf SHA-1: 671049596660c08ccee26c143055c5b8cc9d2985 SHA-256: fc93b0b1bddc89a1a30f87ebd05df5266838d7b7bbd709774173f882fde3d52f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. The document's structure and the nature of the linked content suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://cungcapluonech.com/upload/files/duxapas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/xujuvixokutejenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th0ur16s724d699ur466iuh780/molofuduwukujibuwebubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a92059429---38199365624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d288508f73---lozitedorimoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210622200557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/69002298086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/xawodepapunabelumewegafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/19085281503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5d909ad6d---zejaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/tefetiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6kibnuvboqrvvafg0su9soef/vivane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/61985820632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f4cae1402737e197dac337e0ce686a6/vefivamujibotunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7877d39e4---77402722923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/lorazajuxidenuwerunesego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/guzimaledemeliseteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/fezipuvuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/militij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8472326da4---tekawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/kuwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3a0445d94---wixuziwofukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092297da4548---895810548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/rimejivovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=watery+sperm+meansPDF 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_off00011431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11431 16640 bytes
SHA-256: b92ce16699d3a057fc1a7de82c061d1510f6aef2cbe7985d64893c9ae71f5381
font_01_sfnt_off00013f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F65 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 451c98725aeaa25765edcb03fd75c3dde17c7fe99cc14fdd8f122f4948fbfe83
font_02_sfnt_off00015682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15682 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1