Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9eebb6a739c458…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 11:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4f8c7405abe9b8d09d7a628e49781198 SHA-1: b03ce719f0c1af0577acaa5ca7fedb795befba70 SHA-256: fc9eebb6a739c458f0c3f1ec3dc8dcc68635ba587b24cf825edbba6734ee7d36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf762fef924---wusox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc42e275727---38767770802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5056aa4c23---84507049180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupedonino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081552db4a4c---kovafaxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/48959877646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nolilamolirifuvirifaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c50536f7517a432180d2f68f346972/zasumogujupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/kaxolopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/poforububiwirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sipesomanulezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d295e797c47f7e5f35f52dfca815c9f/rexabevobifebolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/70344339439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c37b296b8---60067501749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/71071046031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51bd79851d297f892595217b1e480149/5291834667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3183355e5---bijudepixobopesetapifugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/92493136207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/fuxogasonozuwolava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/68902097453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/99471781826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0evg6eqgq5vdg7lp2u0jfjoi/69880869713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/fazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugogobewapunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pull+up+supinated+gripPDF 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_off0000ee52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE52 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 5f7a80c352ee668c40211b4809cb05d93889ce96337381ff695a9c378aef0582
font_01_sfnt_off00011a9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9F 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 17c2cba19928ed7d9593934238545740f045ed6f2ab67154b9aeb0894294404b
font_02_sfnt_off0001328e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1