Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd004597a986f23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e02e365c8fd954879bf646cdbd33e247 SHA-1: e50e5e672e1a52f87fb1ae68d5fd3d0e444ac745 SHA-256: fcd004597a986f2353ef1e8c9904fd72895a8564cee591459eb07182fdc8abf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of multiple external links strongly suggest an attempt to lure victims to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f04a016bb96f678f5176cc7dca2dcb44/rutijotapuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b186f2584---2730564640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2hptacvpk57qc9vqhpl71e2hi/xepixurexikalubazufubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/42895553756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/97957361182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/leliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c167529a8---widad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dea0995a2c---jagunolubobiniwevemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/99617192400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/didubutafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086265caf237---kajore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgvu2u0rbp1jl0a4evcqildmc8/pejifemigowirewoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d184853646c---gawilejesipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/87687393978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607754ac69a79---25619942470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhconsultancy.nl/userfiles/files/dejixuregaralaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb3b157dd6ab61c3c3fde06a3f13448/34252485645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5388db0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/102145803260902e5be09dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad54ce3f8e2---zaguzetekozirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085484db739a---62083294358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/dumixuvimaminegutexupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/kuvokiwupixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/70184617511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mif7gh81ostdkfrua34eoe8j03/25639780753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+duchess+of+windsorPDF 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_off0000ec47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC47 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 74c0731813117e56193421f380f1ad3f4dacf2058b2c88574b7d0e522207af98
font_01_sfnt_off00011be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE0 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 5f0f89070754f4f1481de3b9cc0ae98924220a112c183f5c0e31f779a68acca3
font_02_sfnt_off00013375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13375 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1