Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd33c4fc9fb002c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:11:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3420760d962d66425842524386d1c317 SHA-1: 4bc1a300a2b8142368e9b9db4f478650598cf6de SHA-256: fcd33c4fc9fb002cb0a83b32c330ea49abfcca4083083b570415b5c7ef7e6f94
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. Embedded JavaScript streams suggest potential for malicious code execution. The numerous external URIs point to a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+qualitative+research+paper+chapter+1+to+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/pomadutibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/mesefudoxexokovipibizanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/lubisunusexevunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f10i45q0lco4lej2dverpe3opb/dufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/37689436970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146593a5ebb0---vaxududizesiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatsystem.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozofajusanudofiduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60302234592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/82575397305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/tumigoxixejoneserisuvifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343667e768a---rezipiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7dd681d42---11298291629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poojaindiangrill.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dusibexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pqcij0d98enfmq5dbqjer65ka/kibofevukexupunifupipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/32841517699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/82159837358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkert.hu/files/file/31111544346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/48648535329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4r09iof6bg830b355b2u81071/rewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/wolozagomugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xexagozilaxager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f19066cdad0f3cc225394ed23e75de0/53396410513.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_off0000e16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16A 18464 bytes
SHA-256: 76e19e93516ef4ec8ad12f0d212d6b3f0310691e53b9aedab6e35a13de165221
font_01_sfnt_off00010f8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8B 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 8199364c65211e687f481f2203ffd558fb056b403063435a4ff800ca4594298c
font_02_sfnt_off00012a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1