Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fce3e93269e0ba53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 02:16:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 35a9eea41d7aa5edffe624af6071b624 SHA-1: f0aba127d40197eb4f89a7a5aee471eaa6c2af6a SHA-256: fce3e93269e0ba53ae66506d56ce8cebdef5c9754cdbeec27716296766d5f219
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/53665951660.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950e7dc5a20---maxebufufesamisuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagnesreunion.com/clients/e/ed/ed16748122b3ff8ec97113314e0446c4/File/joreluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92fd7e275e---dukobugasugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/putelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e0e084579---28573967884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/46916863024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epodhajska.eu/UserFiles/File/xuzawonajubofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfdh7j8g14tugsh2ccovsrceqd/lefonupujinifubebulavutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/51136614653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewheightsalumni.com/clients/79364/File/wojakasaroxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608942d30a3b0---12908434001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/13304350879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c87543517---luvosudepove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6abe3a6141---wesomikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5cf040cb0---xegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4scanada.com/clients/8/81/81a8d3ecf29e0a7d9042e8364394d873/File/95062400590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-28/20210728070312951986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truonggiangcompany.com/userfiles/file/volipenuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae55d45fdc0---69834436682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99ef60358---gibapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ba2d532ffecb2096dcc52ec0cc79b3/85204298819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgu78ginqruau7i8a5kr2l5u3b/sizepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=8+ball+pool+guideline+tool+-+3+lines+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000faf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF1 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4600718d386c798c8239b144b5fa2285daf2735bc3488f19119d42d8237b23
font_01_sfnt_off000114f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F4 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 441aa42ba67c03fc02c6203538b2b91fcafce6a86a889b11d536543815e4332e
font_02_sfnt_off0001412b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1