Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fca103ecb8e15bf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-06-19 02:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 413263d2c5ca472636eb1f7c8a6bcfb8 SHA-1: 2b1884efbd3afee37b475132e07a4d8a6ee1b3d0 SHA-256: fca103ecb8e15bf7bcf1ff719b3aaca8aefc89369bd28121f3583d85ae505940
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of invoice-related language further supports a phishing lure, likely intended to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/vupuverarisudom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5lsl5drj45b1ujvsogg0lhdb3/25778848804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075db079d45b---53308274586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i86j9n6topf2j3e5n49sc40d8o/96945424305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d82b5811---zitumoxebomokaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd8ef775cee181d54dce4a745ea48d2f/watuvukawasazagutinamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e7d8e6f3dea64cfd6ae7ff187fc11b/41519650600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a402689cbb0---zebavugokapelirefudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074d5fe3bfjmbbvmtct9naqq63/rokufodatutaliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4ebf0c818---96140697739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e6a51bdddac6c8d7d726d66c49e6f4e/fomuwoximibidorubebarelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa38b5c5ec---menozixobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/590e9f02c59516fdb83c3b76e179b8e9/noginot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607447c011d3f---63884527138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/raralixusujawasejopajobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/240141063994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/1337497318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=direct+write+off+method+definitionPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D4 4932 bytes
SHA-256: d3799da09bc3340ed45fbb5c1f3cd55227735890b7d4141f262941168dab37f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF289 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 79108ce18c983e33170a46dbe45db95001d2e208a58b5606cc2856daea1d3496