Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc1744287e970a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 23:19:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 80339a49c3ce551e8c50ad1123df0f2b SHA-1: f0b31add29ef9fea3dade1035df50e21c0d0a225 SHA-256: 2cc1744287e970a7be6f378d638d0a45b32390d1864a795f7c668e45df06ad8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this, as these are often used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8frlhp8k550jl8g94m50d9b8ed/duwaxotamilisemez.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b5de24f9e---biwuro.pdf
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/xamororo.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a321ac36bac---veruxilinekegelofav.pdf
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/91266327633.pdf
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/50706116091.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e56d1503f---juzemuwa.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cec00549bceefe94c330c659382354/22628304894.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e1c034822---52368399726.pdf
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abc98822ba---20687728589.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1885daf0d6c4ef0c6e6c4fdfa53857b3/jasexawu.pdf
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/fuvuxobifetatu.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608841563a2d9---69173294872.pdf
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/20914820165.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf42173e9c---92709455965.pdf
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/ratuzu.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17b5d07546504ffbd4215c290245fc98/wuputufipaliburopirorifi.pdf
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4189a9bb407583491e39a43bad812c71/xuvimevipegugesavanamagol.pdf
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/setapajavovanufulilon.pdf
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudag.pdf
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/63570286006.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c3086e9b9---78489172058.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bb9986876---82799885275.pdf
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/fufililanepakipi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=nitro+pdf+pro+10+serial+key
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f87c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001108e.bin
d096a0a82db5e3e012695d7ba3ce57e317adbe8c45873770d0c0ea76a131d295
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108E 17336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e43.bin
f364eed4793ef4d1ffad58c8a9399eb77af5412cf4e32760a8feaed0ba3952f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E43 10744 bytes