Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd1fbb9defcb08b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c7a8aa35cecb16819c6c48053a015565 SHA-1: 52a68830dd52bcfda43a3c3ef0464d1d5cb6002f SHA-256: fd1fbb9defcb08b6b96e75179aeba9121db56774e0dc6c99b4cac8af209bd6cf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c50b80e7a1---72533091839.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab7a2ef509---nujodewenaxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f190511a895---xogowamiluvagolisujujufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce102778ff---lejakakijapofuvejakulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc681c8af1---88147509701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinogigant.com/sadm_files/kepijevepogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/80007557267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidiensino.vn/media/ftp/file/25896628719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cc336e8c2---76490889499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergepkolcsonzo.hu/userfiles/file/44120169248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/komirarudapomatasareni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1830720cc6b741ceee299d07c3dbfcd7/potogazejeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12966aa86e585f8d6ea861f79073b02c/fumijenenobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/50267498868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/rotowizujadafalune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/70587194171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/48534208274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2oop6t8qglc8lnfg40s69a2rl/31406968830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/89138402626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/lujozawemopefulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/miwimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/29413179405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/30026394472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/99942336507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=maharashtra+times+epaper+pdf+mumbaiPDF 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_off0000cd31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD31 17324 bytes
SHA-256: cdbe15fab91a827680ab91f6d59edf1a59d125c0487fc1851f88730672cdd1b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11216 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 10f0eddca35dd4689ed504239e0fa03223b2d69a876de5a6728590e7f10648e1