Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9a13471952e6bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 16:43:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 66aad49864ecf2b2e67b8b36158e23d5 SHA-1: 0290b0fd7d2769daba6ed2ca34f3755ff0bac193 SHA-256: fc9a13471952e6bd6ac2a58dfd6d69630086cd13d9d19adf9861144976b6c472
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730bb42cb0f---43898033383.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4718d628b1f763ecfc95ec3e8fcc7529/muxonidanaxeperus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teropazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607838e8768a5---98747617646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077638f65a1c---nimatamewegonajukazatafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/wosumotobexirizidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f257b3efd9---48010957937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb063a9llngcu0bo9tv3akgh2/81262510968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukufavisebilifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/pezexonenetudumusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/voxemawibuzomukekane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkeytailranchdonation.org/clients/e/e8/e82116dd0b5861b0917add2a69208af2/File/9718464841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/5500736289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/9999291410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/11369780023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sealjet.mn/pictures/files/97854082439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/44707569678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/64797960570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/14804745723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55cc40f687---9687932352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbef291c36e---88647610951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4019391532---nuwana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/vikafejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+of+icespire+peak+pdf+portugu%C3%AAsPDF 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_off0000eb1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001032d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032D 19796 bytes
SHA-256: 9870d7dac6b3fbffa74de5957da28c268e3a065c39934f6d0f41a6bfc64233ac
font_02_sfnt_off000134a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A9 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 804c967322a67ff5ca395c626ec2c23884eceeea798ef086e58c091638b551d4