Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fecd0193dac4265f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bc5bdeb262fb42519716fbac7fcfb566 SHA-1: 30e4a225b3ce9614978d5dc9dee5f06b690de1af SHA-256: fecd0193dac4265fbd598276b73560354cbdd69b099246a31514fe8204b31b0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=milan+system+for+reporting+salivary+gland+cytopathology
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/65654488885.pdf
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/polorosijaba.pdf
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93589468092.pdf
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1361a193c6a1a4e1e22781dbd39d0b36/54462275454.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d981d2cc1d4c9fb1f6a3227e25841b8/bovomelelasiwizefex.pdf
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/71118685796.pdf
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/86425500048.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c8fcb6554---46926842787.pdf
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/zunejikamunow.pdf
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f23ba041f5dd9aa97173113f9d949ef/87943758112.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/dameliwotoxedekoz.pdf
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf886bd5c74---xivunejopifavupajodi.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e452288281b9b49f01b9383fe4fe859b/nojorurobazaduxa.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d897d4f486bd0186134ecc6fb80e97b0/vabut.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395c6552d971fc23dd898d1f4eb703e4/15545713176.pdf
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/58058016674.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809aaf0ab18---93297505233.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610b53a4af251ab4cfd00576fd1c3574/xewikejivazi.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/5932035884.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866ca3c5429---69091012412.pdf
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dde6160e1---34387691977.pdf
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/winemenorajupute.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ac7a8cd5ca5c813b5a39cd8707b537/rixuwuzotewavabogul.pdf
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/betibebapo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1BC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9d3.bin
471871e8dbc4f87b44eb766c874abab3334c39ee3e3690292997aac9e061ab31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D3 11240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103c8.bin
d98a4050e5cdfe0f26a93b0c6ef3b9b35468d431e498da750bcbb8a3477cda7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C8 19316 bytes