Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fca2d1fe9cccc6c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 41d704cc6a6fde6afff10148d15c989f SHA-1: abf64f39fdff1e35e437ca6ec476923f958d9bfb SHA-256: fca2d1fe9cccc6c04c947b9b0bd8b991dd8244639265dce8a0dab3c0fa90a4b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, indicating a tactic to distribute malware or harvest credentials.

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 https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60abba987c32674705b291ed03d4c397/22830378383.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/83584815119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92310921af4be0b74c9e63d5d96ee344/63713189036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074884ba90da---16099403000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/66986245014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1cm13q6sqcd0p458e0ters92r/suzikudonofujiferobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5dqbmc9ffimfbk7017sv160gj/52489560399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/25031923505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suavitinhtannha.net/upload/files/90791082008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/zawanapofukudokepobefemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd0c092254a220e744bb706f22f19b6/66985431324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51ec832d3293d06e8b4bdf3e7883eed/80653813726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47936020288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/daxofimebotazetosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6d838ab4e---sozudevemejaburawedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f5cd10cf3a01700313a5c15237d282/dewujaketadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///zuguvelagozifagulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1622867092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a079c2b6358---gerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ie1flagv03g42b23j7j75cmlj4/45617757083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8570b73a7---12445842506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef56012b80---57538286275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66eb99bbd83tpcmgu2lglsm12f/24361098764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/gijegabarelugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/27878118060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=unsaturated+food+listPDF 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_off0000ec2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10440 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 976e024d4ee033a851e6b993acc79e4a6b606b2d1c74f5e48e6ab77216734ea3
font_02_sfnt_off00013195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13195 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 0c48bcf4c5adfd4239db76bcc489d9acb3e49eaf7b5c35d59274a91aaf9140b4