Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cc75f5cc4893143…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:26:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b89901bd3c02c8f8cbaf8759d8c7969b SHA-1: fcc76281ba1bc5d26c9720618e024b3b951bfd08 SHA-256: 0cc75f5cc4893143c385f57049bfe7c632f34f9daaa75a9887f759a9b15520b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a malicious link distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+the+big+book PDF link annotation
    • https://peintures-descours.fr/fichier/files/39532553951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/54168472818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/siberugogibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps9c848lm06ahpefe6c4iamoel/71410481889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/ribis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/52924971836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickerbarcode.com/file_media/file_image/file/larudubipemubuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/xerasukabuvevejetezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.com/contents/files/10836762051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungam21.com/upfiles/file/1630986939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139866b8a526---64143875667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/16014963170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/88003429709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///70215802739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d681d71b33e6773c13f9823f616fec/ziloxomavafusatexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9209406ca0848f2ad17ddcb81dce5ff/95483793916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adec-interiors.net/Uploads/file/sanexuwidorivenujezidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotexebumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-habitant.com/images/blog/file/lezonowududitofulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/duzenekiloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25407642179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/31763506609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613365a538975---38659584211.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_off0000d71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD71B 18924 bytes
SHA-256: 66368f7e2ae5d77c14b3d1047e41010e253f381425cd7b9f245ae117b3852e02
font_01_sfnt_off0001077f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F96 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 91ced44b65f6e6376ad21f6a87ee1fa2e9ee3128a82f5b2c2ded50eddb51e358