Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cc9987630bc3587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:12:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4a320ada7aea63ec62637db2e13754ba SHA-1: a87c4c5dfb4fe0a810a901d191806fd1c16e4130 SHA-256: 1cc9987630bc3587a459000caad9d267f0b2607f0fab2a304b6272ed6e430e30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The PDF structure itself is also noted as a link farm on disposable hosting, further indicating malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eqafsjstenlr5qedvom7trij3/67673097279.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/22735077307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b100c140283c8c783f264389c3bf699/xuxisaxasozose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e01dcb1db4f85ca439fa8a53266904/borezuxudenasinetebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/giwuzuzinomekarobefuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/22057329769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b886485ee8447556b0eaee909290fd0/69456408443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50952e419175034c2382bbe687de9d53/39296827957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608122f0cecba---rozepimededar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/11224460249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6aa59a7da---bukusakaxabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210522064756_620636415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b453549859a---72657277178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/mulolivixurepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/92710519404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e95d004ac---84661031612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zilepukanujogita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc8b419cb9---66689742334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b651f33845c---novegivogabapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/nokepasaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/zifasitatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/77803983919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/dabowagapudemalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129c4adabe4e---suvilolakuvowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/nalibosovovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/82721014944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=desalination+definition+pdfPDF 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_off0000c516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC516 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 360ab498141213e6b44f3ec4e12f3e37289a1d12ec4bdb4d4c1ff0a9dc16601f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07B 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 8477495da8d71c0d2cd92ca0444ec3a7f11da9c6677ea63b30e0cbff941fb85b
font_02_sfnt_off0001081c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1