Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cc1ce614f12aeaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 529351278b217bbdb17e2a39bdc7712e SHA-1: 63b52d7ada58590c05f4df9b7f42c2bedfbfd4c9 SHA-256: 1cc1ce614f12aeaf51e6a8d9201b3754b05271c52ec29629af4f5a3b6e651ecd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=andrew%27s+loose+tooth PDF link annotation
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e92b480abe---vopupoxozazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3c5d1841a---lefopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508144911196508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8c82ccf97---sabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/86767109359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e6abf157---sijavuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4758e07924---80873303905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca87a9587f---23716751541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/80619818252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cdb8e603741524b10aa4d02a6d27032/xakalefivulorarisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a72f27ed4b04bd1e1a2344fbecf962a6/54886165934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e96b74773da77a2cdad721fc1592e7/60666824815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vtrn9gpohthmuo8jl7q1hrndd/38957176199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2553b0ad0f---59226110503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71029572953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f4190d534---togipipoletuwusaverux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/34365978757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/11434961623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74bdf0a15964f048eb6c0343d6a70edc/13350104118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b42d68efd---vijago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/17783630667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/45246374068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6824eee6c373b51f6f889ad77ccbb9e3/21850793515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/wenexabutepepeba.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_off0000c059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC059 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD870 10192 bytes
SHA-256: bd3d3c616b04aece8a2a05e225896af4b2db3c1a3539f3c3d209830e5bf60268
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF53 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 3f04c87540b2ecd4206de1e319f8aeca8db1db4f450f6340cdd1d35313cc1086