Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fce3c07ca3c0469b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0e371342a4157cc2f8e02df6e06d015a SHA-1: 30b436625f573282f04ebcd6fccca75d985af022 SHA-256: fce3c07ca3c0469bb8c841b0fde5e67af430c9928a4f2f01d653447fc41d7a72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL distribution suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/kemiluzonotixadexilo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/kuxadowivemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpibr.org/clients/f/fe/feaff840d005acecac0f151e8679c8db/File/mapixinomukozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3555338615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/57935931241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/10476467514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da9a09bdf38---xasokukanira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785561aa95---26821777096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb66593805fb1cd110578f4c026bf2a8/76690451745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc272533a003dd5b07abcff9dab5503a/larudibidonutabugeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b270e488eae---mijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5b59db655---gurafiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea87f4100bb08731514c4d4ddaff3f52/1159306944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db5ddccb93---59151494057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac270cad2a---petuzanosoripifuluxetedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607094d091ab4---90706355847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293i57et5qrb0ld203h53l78i6/kilulukutidesukiruwomosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42dee7ffd91478b07e4c95d9e1198ff7/34285041922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58207074737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/32188863458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da6b91ef1d9---zosezenutulefopumamanosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/95907817621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=earth+wind+and+fire+i+write+a+song+for+you+lyricsPDF 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_off0000e7ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EA 11040 bytes
SHA-256: c31f48ac4bb904693d1446c86a2dd6ccf0e5a135143fe05231f687e14e8f8a97
font_01_sfnt_off00010169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10169 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001197b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197B 17520 bytes
SHA-256: a9dae6fccf94614da7832ccb0f06e255c344aafbc780a3e819abacbf6080a15f

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