Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9e5ee0fa50b782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a84e3f901307b93883a9c091aa10b325 SHA-1: 16f21ed021b89556ebef267c5504923dd7c8906d SHA-256: fc9e5ee0fa50b7829bedef2df9684e438fbe3089baa8ac06623c8da34444fa38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/raneto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/91310602427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/94053266049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/15196995009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2dc67dd601---8295945545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/34727557493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/43654550078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/70739380869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogokaradadixevozudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a858ae2739a---38735504644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/52091874574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/56668104834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents//files/49295926821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///69486220405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108c8dd92be4---29803459750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee679e8e0aa0df66aad439fa856693eb/kunixulisiwijumutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snotlicker.com/clients/10243/File/14934367143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs3st42suj0ndg52m6rcq9nfug/65561338821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb7ff1ddb1---womovelogufozanomisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/salevuvadilaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+conjuring+openloadPDF 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_off0000f7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB2 20112 bytes
SHA-256: c3c66f4228f2c0f085e5da5bfdb41200d09a692767d75403e714f787f431754e
font_02_sfnt_off0001446e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1446E 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 73b47653d13b8e567aeedb7874c5c886f625c2c60d1403a862fe41ac89ce5346