Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdcf6c62f6352de5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 014965b01e4f4ef082380c8cfa14c562 SHA-1: d6fdf936824c485886cced8b640d6d3d5cd3c488 SHA-256: fdcf6c62f6352de5740b502467bb55cdc9c6b16dc52d2c2006b95bb60d8dd742
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple links to potentially malicious domains is a clear indicator of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc5c63ad3b---49815156637.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jvgjv9dvh0hj4a784oej792ld/73141733416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e42bt3l.net/upfile/files/26305595413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn7oj9ake0h3tn6l8mf3e6shks/dodebunakedoxuwiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97385901177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/18592951713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalieuht.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/solowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/16431097259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741cdc05e56---57511357232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetah.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxewipifosevufetebuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/getepamuripawinizeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidienmanhcuong.com/upload/files/davodepesimapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b93dda44e82aeec426068881bd33c5/66718711079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/semonodukofulenupuratafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/58406820085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/79315120261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/jowuresufumasazafosader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/93331183906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851dac38543f30781ab750d60e5a9257/72985712559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/tiremaxelapinadikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b4bc44e03---gadiwivofirisasozumisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da192762f1---98113165484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=red+rocket+readers+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD368 10448 bytes
SHA-256: b9dfd1055d31329e2b6c25adac03c1366a675c215d682cba55dc94bdf178e061
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5C 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 68c8098fee8036f568568a9e17ff35e842738080065dcff8240ee199b747a974
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1