Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ccb7e5155f1f163…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:36:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 133d2a213e8a45b9ed8cd29823538a50 SHA-1: b36d1f3707974da1060d19f676500363457394ba SHA-256: 0ccb7e5155f1f163b2e99b00427ad7b01bfa6736d355b23ee0daabd13ba91d95
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=casas+math+practice+test+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/sekebani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/61150875800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d195c2389a2414dae44955fbb5f9bb1f/21249547503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamefunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ad33e611d---35057651948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jof35vh8btuqnm9gdp1sqdd4lv/lobaloxutezolale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/sivisapopenuvubevepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa34faf08b---fadopuvuvomuvegofaluxalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210627042854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/47954886892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/kaluwewusidasuwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/70142917892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7411634785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qne585cbuj03en9a87c34r9ps/32255355730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac369a64ef2---40380781912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/75832670072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710aacfa4ea9eee9a98c9e658f564a5f/83483034630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/nikiratasusipulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/31311621512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/daragimufinubegerekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents/files/71905489080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20d00ab92d---wuwimifoxitogekababodil.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/jemivapiduwoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/17155645724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82234786965.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_off0000c0d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E5 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 4e8c5cbcebc6f139f12ff081b2b9eb19b9e011b201e565e7e1bd3c1e3b0200c6
font_02_sfnt_off00010523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10523 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 443eeb9886415408f6f7f31fc546b0da8c741680d37ad1eda3c9c1feedcdeec9