Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fce3a29c5b1073b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 572abe0410bddaebac7f5aa4038fc599 SHA-1: b15b82d62beee5abaae672b73ad2da2d50811f81 SHA-256: fce3a29c5b1073b798ecfeb3a4559a655789cfdc7f70a92e3eca15cc03bd5046
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains multiple embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7a2966604---92575509050.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2f64651f6---61413976886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/35801088071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/futanuvaramozepitonoxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a62bbdb94692144a838f34ff29cf1d9/27549480631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/809afca305ca3c2a584a557948636665/gifomakezawutilekezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/16187555942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/11733718077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/vegutexetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6ae68648e---nonixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c60ab88d01---99341864672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/witekevorubaliralajopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622aae0de7b728fcc3aa9c40fd84860e/rilogekavukujisuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/dikomumanuretugapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c426c3c22---14824242636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/59715589499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96699c3105d53e9c174f2c163ae42075/xunexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d85c831c700f522122b2b04f8a9f523/bizigamijuvivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf5543f3b6d16f85a1dc5481571e5e1/17761043712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1a2963420188b8ff83354e48a1faca/kejabeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs1962.info/clients/3/33/33dcd814b32da85629335a95ab3d0158/File/95901582890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/vapagizokumaginezusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69146108b61d49d804b11c72a6e6934c/87825606562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=skyjack+iii+3219+manualPDF 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_off0000dd30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF547 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 873a54d8d8b2b55598109902c7796ee6aa1776f77b23d5e19132f6d13400fa43
font_02_sfnt_off00010e30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E30 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 6026125ec512d491b330ab8e06f5f9e62bacc4a4950668b20e98ac20efa7b000