Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd48b8e38773a0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 68a660970afc70f701ab4aa8ed538312 SHA-1: e1c9fdaa38e381e16e890e26eb1646412e28f89e SHA-256: fcd48b8e38773a0ea7da2eb102e4ce99b56a921f733668b986e9f23b43fdb023
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. The PDF also contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/nemesonufanagu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076237c8d650---38070683463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdefd85676c---rapurapurikeradavididibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4e96d3a71aaa9e4a204d4a84e575dc0/61709101966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/12233325802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/63972964527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainanrup.longi.tw/uploadfiles/files/20210904_224522_8339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/17525761960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/35597320609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7a322ed7e953d69cb69324e2738651/97992155118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/bufitafezuzebevugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57c3d75417761911476bd6a0a90590e5/64881598706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/solikafabilodufezuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/rodunekasotolamubesegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/14721138229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpk-m.ru/files/file/xitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/59245843254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08730d3d97---13490021583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interfacetravels.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifotutudutomigegole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16208004388185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa1mp6kj6h81evngpadgd4r91c/97256004556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cf48ba1e8b3c743d85d71b0179ae79/52816121091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/rixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/3181931961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bcd2fbdc71f3c8592c055e9bd3a8eda/voximutidanarenagawilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=colonization+in+things+fall+apart+pdfPDF 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_off00011637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11637 10736 bytes
SHA-256: d63b926dd7be4ec3c34bb33e32bff7345b3b0539f0d01b6a12dcbcf0a133cb5f
font_01_sfnt_off00012e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9F 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 03f06abad2e337bc0ef07ea52a96405648ea9ec8dacfba3584d49828a2cbfb3c
font_02_sfnt_off00015dcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1