Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cc58d69bf61fc39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-06-15 15:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 6eb6898789ed38584c5fac314fedf7ae SHA-1: d29631ce582283532ca5f6488dfa4100ad7118fb SHA-256: 0cc58d69bf61fc390038a92b678e6aa8888af834975aeafb0d485592f70eaf09
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+rare+heroes+in+raid+shadow+legends PDF link annotation
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841626eff75---15960960802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lof5v4mupub6jite62h03lsoh6/28431523338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/zajore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5h6kgftdvbi2e5meni81s9cb7/nunanibofeginomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/33045000865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef3f949e3d---kuwuwevezunipotigibitaxa.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccd13e67b5---31915022056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8717ia7k3q85n1pn60d6p7biuc/wovakawaribog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/devizosibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc1181e974---24483776948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/wopalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10fc34c06e1d6559da49181ff6082c9e/77435472025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6592c5c7e5447c3509dd744e39b786/73403135484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cee654138---dupononulilisabipenuneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ci9plf00cpt91f6mobo22d48s/23230917962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c0b8d55e2---47083455016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67c0fe95641bc77387b5dc295cdb336e/niremosizasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00012ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE4 5228 bytes
SHA-256: bb50a03410f79d33ecce74421283f84394eeba48c68f5bff14e586e4dea9a34f
font_01_sfnt_off000140bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140BC 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 049fdb20738fc324b79674f41771caeda529cd19b3682ed6fc15140bf3a5ade7
font_02_sfnt_off000167e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167E6 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 43254c6337662e76ed67025008a42d76121bee43b935a85a5f582473253d5118