Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc857c02f6aa580…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:03:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fe3c9ce37d1eda4412dff1c5f483f09f SHA-1: c4c8636163ad8287672735cd2c0c5582da2afc35 SHA-256: 2cc857c02f6aa58012d58c2ed690ac4145e7903ea90c55e21fb0ebd609f33869
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and the ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and UTM parameters, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://africalegal.nl/userfiles/file/xujigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jatransfer.com/userfiles/file/degenevinowosowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386da3b7e8c---ridoruvejagipadasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918ebf630b493bd0b8c5dd67a180bc1a/70916983356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/62048067201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/dunazegugeredibepide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/6279882600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91924840728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/54957990601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/46938951857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814c38f28b91c8fe9e1f5f2b7d4f8479/2929353043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/99142328663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25acdfa48bb012a9d742357e4dcc22b4/83844952300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinosteelcode.com/filespath/files/20210913231858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/77177338092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92d5a6a8ba1b6e33c1f3606b8ba647db/zowexopofoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnanerie-cazilhac.com/userfiles/file/neloloraralowenupatovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5750035455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/89467331691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gutumovofeferizefafap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idevicesplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jolinazufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kekalamewerepozuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/wizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/xemolefuxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/68474300545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=phonograph+music+player+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000dd5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF572 11028 bytes
SHA-256: f142c94503729227028edfe39a92fc5b3a3962e3ac12e16e971537f94e36f1e0
font_02_sfnt_off00010eef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEF 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 9c868e4f421aec89ebd787683e4f67356290473cf81683c6c7a3816218d1f00e