Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc330beabd01c07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ac20fc052a682ac98db8f294f6fb8cbb SHA-1: ffb313d041361aacddcd5a20143f29583f70a142 SHA-256: 2cc330beabd01c07d692d6a919c3f83430553f03df4a3d0b9ddf2c233045c097
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/kalot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/38034363093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hexema.com/FCKeditor/file/jisasebunamurajipofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umbabox.com/userfiles/file/datejadofobobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/44279312554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/96467840711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5bcc7851d---mufejasodujapalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/kutefagemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5b8f84871---67429072411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahnil.com/userData/board/file/xitokosakoninomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/keduvotiledixafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn----htbdepbihnfb8cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97470101546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interconformity.ro/images/file/43314140311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140eb741a735---45594187315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69524777683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339e9f297f4---bunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/10060503748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396c9540fbc---fisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq4udu40evs5th8efc31dfakpq/50436221400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e6abaa52a---54381192466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/63674429627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/voraxutixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelarombiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/22633521732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/34848664935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/92899750790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+pro+ftp+serverPDF 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_off0000d401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD401 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC18 10100 bytes
SHA-256: f796959ed49e065d444ee12d1273f8fc03175834c9c5225c5a3ae2e440c0d2b8
font_02_sfnt_off000102c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C4 22076 bytes
SHA-256: 769c994c618887a250711d390ab4bc6227f0d8a52a6898e9b06c613b68b735e6