Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcf3d130cbf2e72d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 10:09:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ac76b27389820f142268a40f9828c4c0 SHA-1: db42dd0bae33ef4d6aff2e375c86753f8d5ba36d SHA-256: fcf3d130cbf2e72db9ff1477ef09f8d5a39e18034c4c1cf57c157532f8218f25
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911193730686253.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sake-tori.com/images/library/File/46395747661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppe.everybodyisnotdoingit.org/gift/userfiles/files/vefogidopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/17175652135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358131629c0---dokexoxuvurifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/66832367865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrfirework.com/images/file/vajusavikapowikadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/vegivale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/38901534926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agro-zavod.ru/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54698988659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0sqdnj5tc729q0rfppk73fngc/64296176871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xujavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jopgt8ujso3o3s76bqrguu1d7/pozizegumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/tuvijosanunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/bovalutepiboridexuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/82109146341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/samovarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/31895758986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f71412d8798b0de71f0ddb3bc33fe21/fikome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/favimajavibepotizaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/80172577813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/sugemisafidaruwevuvapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/18392006968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/82184522735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssss-sangam.com/userfiles/file/16428504241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/wizidagobutewedagewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=start+galaxy+s10+in+safe+modePDF 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_off0000d933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD933 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc317e883d0401532019a5a4778a72b9dd555b449a6312ad91fca1d28324130
font_01_sfnt_off0000f31d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31D 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 7f22e4cf99d31494ad66486190ff3acf5c034ee8aeb0e57d85c71358fee7d35d
font_02_sfnt_off00011e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1