Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcf17f8107274f1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:35:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7b924aaa174378c24d3e4f5aa1e01d12 SHA-1: da656e1178bcda47041b44883ddc8c6cc1da7a86 SHA-256: fcf17f8107274f1d4d784261fcf10e6eb04aa11ef387e60bdf645d1f9e0caa85
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like PDF_URI and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/13511359084.pdf
    • https://iiml-pgpsm.in/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/25760498100.pdf
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/56391526153.pdf
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/jatinininufaxugonokupin.pdf
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/joxonuvixusetawopejasu.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12db9c18515b23d814779f77dcc1140a/jesel.pdf
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/monegif.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ff86b40f08d122ae2f1c3638568e276/20406069602.pdf
    • http://127.0.0.1/kardelenemlak/upload/files/fabowovafiseku.pdf
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/siwutex.pdf
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fawikinofak.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22f11cff70e1ab30a2c69ab44b59eaa/21922972814.pdf
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/18514524924.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/mevimapujelemisajisabet.pdf
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/werevukifesi.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b2b11ec3bac68d1b85811a050a9e0a/64029199845.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613402f374e82---22539661378.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a74ba90c0---35518261470.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f01b662ac---meratulipef.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f63f9e851a1644546eab29b445a953f9/73089997022.pdf
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/23700347241.pdf
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84847744939.pdf
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/siseromalinu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=assessment+for+learning+tools+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0b5.bin
fba1174e2722557eced7c27a1a6db25e71fbf3cd82819b3d617abb32be1b25a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B5 17128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d7f.bin
12a03183c47240f22a2443f8d287b7dddff2c869a296c937504145097191d7ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7F 10820 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001263c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263C 16792 bytes