Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd2c753bef115cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5392ed06aec64a36436cc188811d682f SHA-1: 75b7b1dc7249e8932f18271e3e41a69b4afbebe2 SHA-256: fcd2c753bef115cc6827773fd2e943a56344561bd833e248ad735e372c4769d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, including one hosted on a compromised WordPress site. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kindle+app+for+android+tablet+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614179fb3bbfe---34402452199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knupress.com/pds/editor/file/nusitesutawarogebasumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6okf488vaqja9l37iardgnp96/titegipugikupofaniviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/mibulejusonepovujibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/mupivenefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/nobolizekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/powewulevoxutumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/84841788989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/87156856157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/37002704409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/46983941606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ce5b9d5c2e3ddb0c0d776ea32bf22f/83253485692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosuxagebixupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/viwifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66888043007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/57671709593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021917185137170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishkan.net/UserFiles/File/55630089959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e3325ef67---30350473969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adriennemason.com/assets/files/wemiwukuxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/22739072804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59676908227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwayman.com/uploadfiles/file/210909165129557902zzcr72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/72231954373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/dazalunisasakilebatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210903064613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajasuwikexudux.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_off0000bbb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CA 10540 bytes
SHA-256: ced97dc4d1ebdbc44b497ca19045a10e89a674eb0f3b3722d37d293478b6cdbd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAB 16828 bytes
SHA-256: c0b5cf6b7b324b2faf4483f8cc39162d7660d07cffaf079d9a8679c04dcb5467