Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd5bf7f4593ed38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: eba60954c07c7061e6ebcc7f553761e3 SHA-1: adc2f591ca99e6eae057c0222ad932e66670d11e SHA-256: fcd5bf7f4593ed3845ff39b7268ce0b2c1d8fef2ce976292d32adc6d8c9bc460
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external links points to an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/54114633623.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0779441ccd53141bf7b0d7ad16a67dd0/69387365953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070785b5e70c---masera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/pegowadovajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1718375957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e43edeb00b---dunitowajuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/34821924328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870c21d0693---43524584623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/93582314252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/41210449916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b494f59e90---90516114130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57b3aabb00206a17c7348445c5611675/28394394040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/71981879476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d233428bde---65782623613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210621232008_i2p8g0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610501738db0b---28904867608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc05102e3386b0318b67726ac876827/datumewilarobufaxuwedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/84314327518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e0244855f16c7f055332d7c873c9a0d/pojorimofipipogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jq8bufhmv29ir548cbmt9p290/vipidabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltripclassof74.com/clients/8/87/875eff38522a6836d9fda94c5a2b6b26/File/xikusodoxiserefulavapexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf16ce8bb3---gufikofakabomomofilelibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu0fgh8ci89u1jh76st0k55vd9/tuxotovasesivunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/39379969237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/91657411999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/napivexezibawaxugubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/61749128036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=metro+north+hudson+line+train+schedule+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_off0000dacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACC 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 742388c96ebe20aa1c23d2fe2a4207f2813a6cfa41e1eeda2f948dd0e7cf6d23
font_01_sfnt_off000107ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12001 10812 bytes
SHA-256: ea1b5af1e71dc8aee9056ca5679e9d5ffe6c15c4fb3579d9950613c2f606d106