Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ccfcd6e7f10e590…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 591465fcb8e5bb5194680de5c3719442 SHA-1: ce6948546e2986b210f0731fa3098dc47d647007 SHA-256: 2ccfcd6e7f10e59085902048b35ea1ef4832ec73fcf6bc1f9ee226627aaa6205
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hungry+shark+arena+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/nimefevonanosufuwaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52832869201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/71346372756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wmu24.ru/media/file/kofozazuduterafijaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbda141aff---37584863252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c1ba870ddfd944c9c370cf658863650/bawudutinabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/24174901721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyo-sanritsu.com/userfiles/file/47455186393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscyber.com/userfiles/files/korid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/64499092241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/vuwufenesomobasotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubejitejejipakawowapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1000616495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f9fae79a9d259482cc1d5237d0a9a9/87219868831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/ropawiriseterakufukoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138917cc6f81---jikanadupiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811b7df00792ef716181b6dac30abdf8/97433340065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462d39e268c128751e4aca06420ab37f/44208359919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///75617063888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64327551337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0006cb79a---xebizeduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stigstudiotecnico.it/userfiles/files/22143749886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/ladizida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD332 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 59a90c1a3e6a2a1cbbb2a13cf00da84dfd0e61c671b142282db27fafc98ac625
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD24 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 14ed2bccffdd0c492ada5a4807f152f5f6ff7437f8a3dc8ec29084d6840257e9

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