Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcfba847a42ba742…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 46d8984a3252844f7c952507f6677989 SHA-1: 2e3b3ded85e423120739cf445fdf023d4d04f1c2 SHA-256: fcfba847a42ba74218310126b5684f78dfdb62dde776dcfd99a7ae14cb9b5b92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it is designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+left_join+by+multiple+columns PDF link annotation
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/53379070220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42e7dc9ff4---66655418378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/76911953295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/64054503161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50pava9ml5h0pi5qap2v3994e0/61785995156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608756976a904---36544573132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161162719c8766---nigutalejikuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8225a4f39---57925820480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa6d1a9c51---31134100910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/16917882454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/fuvekewofiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee6i4hf1e19vsjtudo6fogj8b/71037838434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/rixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airmon.hu/images/files/gosanebunegogagoxofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df56122185d2b80f24a861112483c8d/gizunesolujelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/fopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/fugiralazuwuworuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84d62f23eb---17234445719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/43251255443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/dedumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d8t0g4ugg2o2tfbotapc6267/71603610375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/ginajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/99709630026.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_off0000dd2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2A 18628 bytes
SHA-256: e0bb58c721fbdfc550710ad94da8bc8cd5b0353c9562a649937d4c48d5dbd024
font_01_sfnt_off00010e49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E49 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 46d0d1a1e6a87d785315eadada2bd8f9ae6f8d0e97ecc1bc757678435bf97473
font_02_sfnt_off00012773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12773 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1