Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dcc647f4f444ed8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 07:11:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6ccbcb5c57b25e6a3830e247ed82512f SHA-1: 1d7463c3bcc0356acb4fbbf701edb30326045e07 SHA-256: 2dcc647f4f444ed8a65dd765c4d417b8873e94d61ba0258635261c552e545999
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/lowagozuvuxamifeda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/29588715124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/10574161141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f30pek0h0vkqj5r1pqtjpnmb7/94039874179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/95366709986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84973917111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/24028858660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c405214f6e---92447898000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hont6ab1dcimg1f1dgdb16qm5/53632869886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goddesshair.net/upload/users/files/gixajeruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serenetransformation.com/clients/870552/File/87627258511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28673fb503eca0b1317184f6e77fcb1/80888622715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d514546aadbc0e497dee6cb87b1cca/lepawugobovelatudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/13497702737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e839f6lr4kvmfrkoj25e33t7/90771979051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/suvekitimeneganudazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/21768525020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/31919818057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/komonapuxoxugosave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/xizije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75bfe9d28b817babe3884624d5d8bc0f/91439198265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/butenexovife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbb4bf1585---34963293679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=moral+education+book+uae+grade+6+term+2+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4FC 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 45435af14fce86f5faf21f769060de0f7c01fd22bc390693611cac4608d9164c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16E 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 06ab92e97a95401a030f8187dc1ffea4875560f47e2c15cdea9b43de02499fc4
font_02_sfnt_off00010beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BEB 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8c991975cb5cc609e467700b27b31c10fde21ff94beddb9393284e45f26c36
font_03_sfnt_off00012891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12891 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1