Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd7cc01a2cc4816…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f08ad14593e16ca287f31a8b083d15df SHA-1: 9f9afc879c15673bc7aa48516f2588aab38ffb7f SHA-256: fcd7cc01a2cc48167c8fffcaba16300ceab70047fcbc574c939e37d11db99917
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to download and execute malicious payloads. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage further indicates a distribution mechanism for malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161058377a42b0---85651127999.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/32220481938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/65740298079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09b808d425b2ec70fe8e6fe9fa0eeeb0/mutivemuraxujugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be218dcd08---suwitogokif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukivikenapiforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/7509444677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7cg2dffsdjvce51dsf0ap557/60133004572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/17561484182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/68911695844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/juvuvubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/jiwozewafolelutifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/gepiwaronifidelazibamizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papierplus.pl/userfiles/file/40941000053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d94d1da068965c361b6119c8d4281ee/22824457065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/suwonevogobenezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/67139961428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/73998285555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/67612308252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df6753af46---kenamexoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124b13b31016---jugoradulumozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/22917755132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef48b69577---16492342929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=define+phrase+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_off0000dc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF414 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 897f990a05afe4136ecc1562e7a480dde98e9da2a20b640d4246785d6075ca6a
font_02_sfnt_off0001204f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204F 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 98891dcfa2c0a8d92b34613d98baa43ae609e0ec103f87d388addcbdb4180371