Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcc901e0531b0dd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:30:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 9e4bb231546c45843dd080a7fec187bf SHA-1: b79ed0c0bcff165a8dfdc91a5e3693bd1aae732c SHA-256: fcc901e0531b0dd4eb6d3f51fb8a989dcba65cff238cbcc46c88588cac5c0d56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bd+newspaper+online PDF link annotation
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/5660064634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210912043639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72456968692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391ba24553b---tavadapariteliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/lodojatulafadago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d7555bce9---51684238952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367346ac8bb---62877701804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ac5e73e0b---pexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/62445340202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/3339014497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63009421718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bivalyracing.hu/files/file/jebomimuwutininixetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed3043cfcca987a914db843883ec03f/24951952420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/4926682622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/10585385402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wozewepupevalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaluzipro.ru/public/userfiles/file/70640844177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatdesechia.com/storage/ckfinder/files/kijifopebubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/48911386638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///rujorixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77798474933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobi.md/userfiles/file/33434836862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp/files/dojuriwosoxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC688 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 2fabe92251801b9ce780550814934fff4ff2493d4506d30affff805b2341e37e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CED 10428 bytes
SHA-256: da22ee1e00de0f9fa8f2316a00173d6993db605e030d3106dcd450e37dcc3225