Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fde3bc7cbc85bc47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:14:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 048a87bde0b50636ee196a02880659c3 SHA-1: 9db4aec758007e0894c2f6a3f8af922652035dab SHA-256: fde3bc7cbc85bc47131a5c2fd4649bdcb55899f105ba252a56cccbeda0cd405d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics strongly suggests this malicious intent. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+being+eco+friendly+mean PDF link annotation
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83ac6e171f---16745189508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2a1a3256f---jaxorelugobenegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/9580265672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845f741ffa9---vivabukodesabirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea6bce61f41973e1184d4f7425a541a0/dakutinavudisofofepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e141befe7fdba2e2f3cf2c14614e827b/13485397997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindhuinvestment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jijadipazexojuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/kesirokixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5551fb394988f263207d88d4d00091/3701183362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb875c0df7---26553220551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/tixonikavozatase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/tavuriladazaxolarezovadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antasboru.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/25069440761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f9fe04f9d---lowiwopapokafisenaraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/finikibewerivimijafureve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193f0a5326d6156f49ba547d98782051/40370374377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/14631925191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bb9fcafb2a7e651d92fdc353055cad/zuduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/7097330389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/98864730932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673aed73e81b56aba1df9056ec14a0c0/48168460097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ddb3765fdd---25141689732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/wexanemuderojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/33475716664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternatifhirdavat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69073449682.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_off000113e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012bfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFA 19764 bytes
SHA-256: 087e23791d78d386a15a5f3d12c4cb9717cedf4174d37039df08d21f02e8d050
font_02_sfnt_off00016068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16068 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad274db0b5f10acdd41467eff0532a9719abc725596694ad14d62f198c72ca5