Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ccd6eaa3682f118…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 326ab5924df753b531fd989955b182b2 SHA-1: 86b33890ff4deee10d0f6ba972447ae8f12053ad SHA-256: 1ccd6eaa3682f1188062c4d07bc851f10de86f4af009fcd35c4055fd19d7292a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific intent beyond the URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://shhs69reunions.com/clients/e/e9/e92da0bc0099326815942f81a5c18dfc/File/nijujusarunosexitekuwijed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021061815195780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9fp1b0vvqq0ev401inpqq595/reruxogisizipiwefekasifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4eaaed3bd---galej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdfb3cf837---32325093430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyansdugunsalonu.com/userfiles/files/75139325800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/47247680960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/pakofojefezudajiviwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac83e385c51---raginoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/doruwalubodomafovenijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/82452246917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29f30bb658---muluwozetekafoluzige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/22489243714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a15c5c4222---lunirusinulozibarozadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b625f24e94b---xesogulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietwin.com/luutru/files/sivubuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/ropupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f6127c04920563f780a1fbbbb30780/28758012460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9712b67001---19646100972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba5bb17b72---88251200676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriahigh1974.org/clients/0/05/052ab20d644b737728595af1a47b4450/File/59346625456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e97a9d164ac5575cd7a6d19501a9d4e1/13825807594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da4efd8b71---daruzakagite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/filoxijowoxibaredumimaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/7209777688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=characteristics+that+start+with+tPDF 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_off0000fc46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC46 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 7582ec74cd5118b0c82f9fa908e832fe9f1cc405bd437c9198262a909a084590
font_01_sfnt_off00012936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12936 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001414d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1414D 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 5f841607d069aba18629bdd75663a5604a61d20a226c8b8331f8c7ef28d57576