Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fca55e717bd0b836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:12:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bae93abe900ae0a66f7954cb6152ca5b SHA-1: fd3e0a963c56ec8a634057f822e0887e93d3da6e SHA-256: fca55e717bd0b836d40301f5be9ed13f665d1e756c35ce44c0b3312a986390b8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further indicate malicious intent. This pattern is consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns that use link farms to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18095908399.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pratikchoudhury.com/fckimages/file/kuvodokinologaraxodeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/fusewedorevuperujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67b3a78f154a5b31da20e6e546fc58c5/pabemonasarafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/88104432167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finimapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69899316671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwatuxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45421431445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ae29e4f618c20e38e6c81a3ef0b2cc/62276712380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/20656567407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikofixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614502670b31f---misuxokugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8554ce1a3ea937639a14bd4f31fcb1cf/puvaliber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pununawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/fezegamuvisuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cofetariafraguta.ro/UserFiles/file/zomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614502076b959---bedodeduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovrdom.ru/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/basarupasosewunufekopuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972cdaf59415268929e2846e016ada07/pukifaminoxuwuraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/nogolupegosunipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents/files/95038826345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139241a70867---99988140212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/87190237375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/xubuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rules+for+carrom+board+pdfPDF 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_off0000de32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE32 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 5ec758875eb2f96be01c4d35d749a1d7c96ffba9ee312fc910d39cd451dc4747
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0D 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 44fa2265e083b035d818676cf64b8b28b7a965d63efe2bdc05a649ba4714e7c8
font_02_sfnt_off000123ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1