Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcccad2db0dfc87b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 05:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 93ae46ad7921b5105272632436c2c598 SHA-1: c9775a56de220fca7193c3195de2df4433d3f348 SHA-256: fcccad2db0dfc87b605dee764762665dcbc3f695b026117e4205b9302935ffb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to various domains. Heuristics indicate these links are on disposable hosting and potentially compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+sa+gta+v+hud PDF link annotation
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/87993610749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/jinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/47182076169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14303210038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jixuwerege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33181199297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/wokabofozisukubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a160ebdc8ab17de7ac0305da839a7cd2/zejixajejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426070c139e---kolizabijefasofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20211001084757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zehanbiopharma.com/upload/files/lowakeletomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarvodurys.com/userfiles/file/4648088857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/7367029343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/seduledisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381d59d7bbc---musefokuferimigotalasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/xofusijisusefufuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/sobovajudilulewazevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/74153188291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71347537645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/29083973029.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_off0000b01c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB01C 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 7f85709ecf800ac350448756086816a90bbf14859c552cd0092b76fda743397c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000dece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECE 18964 bytes
SHA-256: ddd70c6dc6b899a8af20da8bb03fc2bde5384e8771d9c0edb3ceb88471edd501