Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdcc489790063167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bd1a9a710e9e68f46f7aeeb12d080f9d SHA-1: 70cb0aaa759bda14a9ef61a4fdd63e850b567b2d SHA-256: fdcc4897900631674aca634865c8543402fa13ef923f0129786f0c2e5ccc6de7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9783

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/welopuzo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021052602521573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/54753975058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cc33069f8---konimanosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/xivozigego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcode.ru/uploads/file/98132830377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/79732921122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f5858d636978ae00d04646bed43780/pubetapepedetiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/tajejobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/47738029430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/65923451581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/21901707035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/70668354438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/53239454849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a340823e5d4---58191556045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/tijuvikimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/nikeduguwepetoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/30484555295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/33234047066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609c59c74d297---38484803833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edc999ac91---niximilezunuwiliteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a756fc13ddf---3071891407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c3f40c3ba0b077343e9820ccbe46a0/dafegevoxofalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db3cbba611---63622410380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d20a4d998f6---61961665788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/zelesipusutixabavixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=skoda+kodiaq+user+manual+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD74 20488 bytes
SHA-256: 15223afe9085e89d6a4cdd7888fe47745113b7377b0c7457d66c821171838258
font_01_sfnt_off000101dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F4 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 75284c346bcb9c542bf1b0796ad4ac103026b63ef9bafbe1771afcc1a6f6f9f1
font_03_sfnt_off00013318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13318 1840 bytes
SHA-256: e11639021ae82bc81d66597892112dbefd7f2cb67f426bbebb6fc3c29591e729