Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcc145c43566cdc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 00:29:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 610c514659a915cbcff3f884ff3df2af SHA-1: 2dbd826979bb68a5f39b9fa35e9ea9d2b5625e00 SHA-256: fcc145c43566cdc3005ebb2cdfcaf4542f8eba9b362af5c949f358c431cd9376
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, including a WordPress upload storage. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malicious download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/57800075609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd43f749bada775c7c146f842ba494e/60983920565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48ccca88da---48578336399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21432a366a---wupevisogatuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qd5kr6aa89b4e8mce4jt91o3t/gukuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drjoecarver.com/clients/49355/File/26642660255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f45206f60---pimevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/47470450796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f520bfce2d728f90c7062038e5444e/13630601633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2830b5fc8425f1cb5d30120d79c72aad/zimisijinoniguvebunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/64376284538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af3e6a6f3b---18969246644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd33705840---rujadejigipofenipovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210614194821169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepuwuposonujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/novibupedalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjqlqp97p4a8eg8drpvr8h71l8/44556348233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1f8d3abf3---jekijijutigasumosinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/lumulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb2ab85d318344c29addcee1a50a6f9/80351552014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/81555231686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/lajapivevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popawesadavenubeparojiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=concrete+technology+objective+questions+with+answers+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00011400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11400 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C17 11712 bytes
SHA-256: ca749bf282c8762eb5990cf47f10fc0ecdfa7b58fab13656184de744b2eb6c7e
font_02_sfnt_off00014741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14741 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 465bd68067052ece389ea6b26fe0a86818d727f3b54ce9088d88ca4e4428e333