Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcdd51ab36126cd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-10-20 21:20:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 03ce0edd985592ba9a38cce46f977d71 SHA-1: 2fd048c5c7c0a9107db662f6366b39c10fd1287a SHA-256: fcdd51ab36126cd5f7b92faafd7727c46006fedc569fc000eb04282397dbd8c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate that the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially compromised or malicious websites. The 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests these links are hosted on compromised content management systems.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=she%27s+dating+the+gangster+filipino+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://moulindelarroque.com/userfiles/file/5736870755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skostishoes.com/userfiles/file/rozuwivaxokesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/xiretejenobuvaruditek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/dajenokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/44948621381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4v3s5s2qbnh28td6f034p8bm7/vemapekatitixoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93383900464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/95215824077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ng2pnrib6h8c7o4nu4fvfagm72j4rj/betisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/lomazapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/34758204649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616e4dcad9071---18912952246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_F42A82164B2F8B5A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/59162915991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wwa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gefamuluxipawuzexozejetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents/files/dupipivilowawazanere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/28051703280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/tuvuxupumomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f189bc10b---guxifinumejiredife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/wokewevosexokejijoxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader/file/71546488263.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_off0000da05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF217 17652 bytes
SHA-256: cf6002d079c5fe33a6ffb2e334d93fafeebda55c77eead1f51a59fde35532251
font_02_sfnt_off00012050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12050 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 2e4e11a648ae1cc5aad4ab38dbc11ae2603f0de88888e68bb114ae807b21dfd7