Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcfb832ab75f65cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: adda26fd7af2e783d5f916b3dc218708 SHA-1: 1f63b8425e158575ad7646bf08807b0d8ae4f863 SHA-256: fcfb832ab75f65cd7f616e1e8faec08552f93f8fa20b89f6710d28436de5e4ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure but reinforcing the malicious nature indicated by the URL patterns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+minecraft+bedrock+on+pc+for+free PDF link annotation
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sh3odt3kl1kn9trsn8t8ud81o/dadikudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emurus.jp/userfiles/file/38091032520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35f735231e---silixedelagumazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021042823154173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911e59873bd---67271452513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608640bfc0224---gegumifime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/24193730357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/121958b20c2b06b2c49e5d6007cb6c7d/32524896986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/lobevida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/44289808642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3g6v4n0lspao6p7ssg2hg4gcs1/fusufuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d4929c17d---julurafezubofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/lurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v09dqhhcerophokjfst96b8mit/gimaxabegatubalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab08a4efb8---pofewotilazuxoxutemizoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE617 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2E 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 004f6b47f6413b2a1cf29ce3e7f5da8ba178d28cf26badac1a5e3d0c7e034ce8
font_02_sfnt_off00011782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11782 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 2298259c077f62c6974ed14754b126ea3283cef7b849d4071330a6e531bae203