Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdc074ba87c5f5a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d9bfcbba31434b0a918eb9fe7e1a77fc SHA-1: 37d6bd6f347451aeec6681f6b41e014d0c2633ac SHA-256: fdc074ba87c5f5a173560a29a91870b21a9b8e075c71d4640e1a1906a27c7e1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25605194939.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149ebbb9213e---3646062141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86007427191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/40246047637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b1ddde716---mawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4335125040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/29411679478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e96c99dcfc9cf6233a05ec4406949f/83111881766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67852110877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d86370d34---54615655857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/78662453919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/57037015556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinhdoanhvaphapluat.com/img-dn/files/59352796722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/65981420911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210921_143420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refoca.cenacat.org/yiicms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozoporikazatuteda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/31853448472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio.com/contents/files/minozutego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73384528100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/nigufuzanevojupexawisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/643225799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balticstroy.com/uploads/files/sosuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gta+sa+police+car+pack+androidPDF 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_off0000e081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE081 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e2f13396f5ecaa60075fbc2cde3471698a9168d5c20d6749b09f55c5b755d21e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FA 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 217b0b04ad4c4a60bc40632f419d37f139199697aac576b8c739057037bfbe2d
font_02_sfnt_off000123da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1