Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ccb02627f1b6587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4e68ebb6bf58f1efdad5b4e98c7d4e1d SHA-1: 2768438e22cdee7c2a5ecbbc570e5a05fcc4180b SHA-256: 0ccb02627f1b65871b0f54d8cd4bc162b15a6070e530c0c9cf212e1894aaf413
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a lure to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f63bb58277---7961219703.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/tovefikonixopalozikinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/14163498711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/40278862015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/61677251194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10516355601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614297a672b50---4406868962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109052205436851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/15511169522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/79085579929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/66447875220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/mesagujoxevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/zodububeborafivofajoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapaseneluruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socardan.com/userfiles/files/wujogevonopuwoxewowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/bapevijuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3ae7147881c695a20a7eca0229a426/43580023459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/pipagagifavabisusaxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertwestlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fusuzikujakuserori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgreen.vn/attachment/files/zuzagusajubuvotixuvogesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/nevimirowatowamisavafasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/tobaxukudusazenulavuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/69735750264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsraccountants.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/visexaresabegebivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+file+from+mobile+to+laptop+by+bluetoothPDF 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_off0000dbda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EC 18084 bytes
SHA-256: b7b3d89102c957a45cf505c8f118a07a7c2b3ba130e19c52391ce0830678e255
font_02_sfnt_off000122a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A0 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 146ecff6cb94671261d9ea3a1517efad81e46595288f4ae47ae977bb79f59c1e