Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fca106439401904f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c9d1218d15d4f9648e073792f7e01200 SHA-1: f6d3e7379bf734649479bca0b400ed6415ae8bf4 SHA-256: fca106439401904ff4e0465b82d74a9c09d36f41430d5beb7fd3768236ba899c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, including a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. One high-severity heuristic indicates a PDF link to an algorithmically-generated URL, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f82a4722f6ab0f82bfae079d287c398/xagaxig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b271c191e94d17f81e25929a914d089/53887961910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/36526755758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/12449397471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cieplej.pl/imgturysta/file/87933374786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/87484616663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/fugowadexuvema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49797551581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/wubotidejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabbanbros.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/4284534957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46388971995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///75617063888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/vifoviligatoxutuxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationallanguagenavigators.com/media/64800336874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/depuwakeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a26ec4fa9---kadazoduzuwijobara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/bejugewikofipafawasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/37153881707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seed-hongkong.com/uploads/file/digelanitofidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/65204173263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_3A51EF061A351F16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/74424935106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/75823991986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=a+quiet+place+2+full+hd+moviePDF 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_off0000d0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CC 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 2dc2de482e97727b6d2d4c0f992f8c9b1fd31c2720aa727552eebb733cea9be6
font_02_sfnt_off000101fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FA 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 13c521bee88da493b7ad459766eb10fa131d636693c0b94160eaaae08f61d5de