Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ccfee14288747fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:09:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 658850fa847e19644af076c30ee09df9 SHA-1: 2ad033503d68d1e99b649ba348530e7a6c1d9432 SHA-256: 4ccfee14288747fabc66f0b55968a149f229c354ff6261bd13b935f5fd589a3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://tcihk.com/userfiles/78277780355.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1de323895---gokowabaruvinajajonazujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4728f2996a8bce81648791c64ea689c4/20816073955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i8b02ovcv94k9km36gok9tu5a/nuwokefodiluzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/sadumale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusekedelasibodufogife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/77907533605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086247142fb3---64645177459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e5722f457---pafinokinubezarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c25a44439b---zekugepazenawalujufuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d52aae5423839aae5c691e64b4360c/newumotidojudavekijokulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8391c44c1d---18476030588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/pulonizalujinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/802f8d2790188ed3660920912db96793/laxofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/50479478333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/86930698639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l31cqsv2ecnddgjjf8r3ntlo3m/15898295108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb5bcac8f822cc986f1e74de1da99cb/nanivekubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee326993a1230f4d64e7e4acec5667e/36510290819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/77394093258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f21182a2dd---13877433857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d1b90ac24e13bd5cc49c0a2ef396f8/reteperuvenexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd338e9347f---goborek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=erectile+dysfunction+only+sometimesPDF 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_off0000f4e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D00 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 882ff58c2f6a967a7dfacaee84e4fb22e73ed8a7cec628ffa3b849884d959830
font_02_sfnt_off0001256e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256E 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 880b7b4bf3f86ac16af4e0e6ffd6fe67b1364ac22f21536ad85e2a77dfbe52ee