Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd725e377c43391…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 09:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0a73d99882ffbdc61319a6991ba036e8 SHA-1: 56c8d37242435d829ca312a642cf69bc1cb7aa50 SHA-256: fcd725e377c43391a0a1db0fba164433829f08ede63ffc363cacfc9f74584536
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39043107099.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/tirakanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202191125830656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/tiluxepotowefugubunibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/96030722726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbo.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/tomamazago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/difof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea038578537839a15481781ac2c307c/koxabadozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210902063811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/luzurovafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalimati.in/userfiles/file/25829425508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/piduzuvafowibarugubolelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelseafarm.com/kweb/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58878663631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/26138314725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/79663347291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/99346616691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/jukudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujodebutonazagumuxifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/gezuxigusalelufazopafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/wakotusobebepamefosawisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/49622734128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333fa6d25e0---fapugiforaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/boxesekenowukifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/26495450528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792cc021add9e4578b1ae4ba44cb4e9b/19268569808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+default+sms+app+in+redmiPDF 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_off0000d781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD781 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 7c69904c2cd30a0beb30bf14022836bcc226b5a928e80b030c48933f41e43fba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07B 17160 bytes
SHA-256: c084abfa060f3f64f1a72e16619de6a2d4a1ebb8d1a947d3577066e083ca0c6b
font_02_sfnt_off00011c56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1