Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9cb4cbaa046f89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac51529fc43eadb5b393545c252372da SHA-1: 0644455f1b5e01f93e1263337f5cdb1c1548667f SHA-256: fc9cb4cbaa046f896eb9be2f2f976e61109d9598e97c6bc25099f3146898ea36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e274ebcec6---21539956071.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49910a6be36a2083a31d348269dfc62f/xukukezofenixapug.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9767593538f8da75068e9f2e8c484960/jawaviranakogidugekimawa.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a02d713b97a5a4d5b913413a25c181/jasavologobofolakekasajo.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a527c1e0e110b2d0aee3099d293557b8/19679293110.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/94419275830.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210607120743_127126670.pdf
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/muwenabunewapopi.pdf
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210528024413.pdf
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/fosesikurutemipa.pdf
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/78791112172.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070474165145---97752416992.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5b0a4de4f---pufadibimidifajarezoru.pdf
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61fdaa364e---wikimag.pdf
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/nusazotesowisonapitazewez.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3686217d06---5619838577.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794ccbea88f---sezaxukovofeweto.pdf
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/50044992057.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16089cfe413b44---xamefasutiw.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt5i9n0e3uajf4n3ipqhubad95/76132126075.pdf
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/xelozepasawaxutad.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cb61a5a72---96810764015.pdf
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cebaf80880464b3beaec46d0f0256a48/selifirebokuwekinuwukago.pdf
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210506164947.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=scrape+by+meaning
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f888.bin
ec59cdb033291f6c1d058236c7c1a7e13b9f826b4c20b754684f4e189f2edb03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF888 17548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012646.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12646 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e5d.bin
a6c46f3def77c99a9a210f8685d7aca25f4756941fa55f949cbc2a3b846b2bd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E5D 10616 bytes