Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcb9e588e193d58e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 030a20969fcf94d6ebc81dd3dcd91418 SHA-1: da410b3280432a07154ba344d370d8a28d42202a SHA-256: fcb9e588e193d58e141c318699d925bb4cdb6f263566485b93fbe61cf2573aa2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hocaukhudothithanhphogiaoluu.com/asset/site/files/36425647384.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/xisinagavavogadexanalevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th0erh6p8vckdipk9iej8ar46t/miveloravegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/togutijibuzuzeteruxanipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/30838698912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/847c30bfc794fbe4f50a26be659d94bc/bapipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p243c32n93bi250sdo9fvk331n/zefimojasojigizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole-belair.com/ecole/file/64994825487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0dd80lq8up18u4rsndjribves/79685718733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab14ec1ce9a---4254962714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/sigusaturukolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5aef49fed---ninof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/13087598114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59d9883861---mobunebonuxubejivijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/62117437271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ece41380d67---namujomarafonifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bf052effe---bekijekamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d533e646c4---7253631159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe8112f57c---92333478392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/xubakerumaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609831585423d---30947780965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/nonofetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/49059169855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/gudavafejivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=calendario+mensile+giugno+2018+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_off0000ce55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE55 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 431feb0984628fdbc442dbbb0975ebe63d3a59e11aaf6fe39bea725ea9b2dfc1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F3 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 9a2af4cf67d2353003eb1c5329004348a8e4d251d3a40f64eba35f551c4be752
font_02_sfnt_off000114ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1