Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc94e136f03ba19a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 03:03:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5f4812647b7e9b4b2db3f7a4158f89fa SHA-1: 60739716c29de40b3c33851a76d35e600d26fc7f SHA-256: fc94e136f03ba19ac884780b881cc91b9f79c4616b8af40acc9b2c3eb69a35aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an intent to deceive users into visiting malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://i-dron.cz/data/file/12069740419.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/85895855567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/vixofitomerixurokerifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://un7un9b3rl1pa7-99.com/contents/files/dewosavuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc663d073b---kuxezolufumiruliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/48553343842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarzminder.com/resimler/files/98183242255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relizopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/taxubewedemelipidekuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/gojugubefajowibukasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safe-international.com/userfiles/file/85619653861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/fikegibuvapikogezewixuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161458de4af0e0---fovimoruzawewawekido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b97570aa81---xuzuruselovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/25807004934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/18841810315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139574b2b6c8---4211582321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/xeref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/vezowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/gobise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4748e69d6---37078284650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=unlock+ipad+with+android+phonePDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/gubotumulojisazusovo.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_off0000b1c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C3 16240 bytes
SHA-256: 01a7416eea74d1cfb104c84034085e791b1b3b47a410f23709e602497f23e089
font_01_sfnt_off0000db1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF334 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 893098aec6fc83881ff3577dff525add9511995a311d655a8982e3142aa32a5e