Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9dc189474204c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:59:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 166b0ee4e739aa1bf03a6c8912e810dc SHA-1: e77ccd0ea92fbc93ca7254464505f97224bbc622 SHA-256: fc9dc189474204c9fec60f5d080194d373ada7266e99a91f8930b7c8d65b925d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, specifically WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF's structure and embedded links are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094416d6fda4---pefexovizovase.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210518221249_336223454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922l3udsii4mf6u0iakc164iod/51497665068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b535c07057---tebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/60643240730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo6qqg939irud6i2u2lubngs0o/36747481743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d2ecae93e---24178305587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c3c3755f3---54370229869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezobezepoxurogekubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progin.swiss/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torupikulujifebazubipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/tegejujamabuparumuteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e0df93f8f775d198587c2cf4836447e/99882006559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a55f1697c2---31938865415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjnseld87i26j2sek5mrdn2u90/83638025282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab0cfb88b6---fujunifaberoxafabodaliki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/larusumimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c074f38fad3b38c91a17a3e47f6b2a/18726542493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/notopuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/funopiputagajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/13889639599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/26055036411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ceb770f46---verifeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/vivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfnce03hrkooafjv812q13bial/lolazafumalugabimosikexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/rotetinorese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pollution+and+vehicle+insurance+pdfPDF 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_off000103ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103ED 19192 bytes
SHA-256: 6095be519fd80082d581489f3741c7e248b05a71028c61ba50048a145b2b79b0
font_01_sfnt_off0001353f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1353F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D56 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 1b9e9e6a207ad76a9e6af783526827e3c1e4121c536ce091ef0770686714785d