Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cc31ab5fb4e7d62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 08:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dc85cd8a15ecb0d339620ebe9652052a SHA-1: 1633e78591c222a3b954c4a41c5d2a04558923bc SHA-256: 6cc31ab5fb4e7d62382afd42a408aec8156883328cbca31e43dbd3a2a14a920c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, flagging it as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics indicates an attempt to distribute malware or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adverse+possession+washington+state+requirements PDF link annotation
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943931a746e---18608832955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4615574171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edb67760a5000415d1df0b5e03d71087/83569936383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/6712188993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/naresuxajogoxatonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr5pq8kpml4femnnjvh9lc3v31/gorixopugugadefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b9ee8a2d4---3133945583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/dilugusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444995ca8b---febekezudibagegitomajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aefc8c4c1be---retezonafituruzajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983bdce3434---41937116190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/bejukumaravugepofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5004285006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d3a25e11577deed5e9f2df1df02ecf/41563831475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6a65d18e6---6705107626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/pogusajixirogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b44813aa395e265c7090e5ea62fab5/piropawufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1fa0d1e28d0e78d60eaefef7894ad3c/50136932144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/fabeganetonuwufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67ccdc01a938027b03462b63fe6848e/60816405691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/sirosozirefaxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/35056436693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/derodamome.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_off0000e865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE865 11172 bytes
SHA-256: a2f15af70646423abe6ad4c6bdb32734fc11ddb4c09a3ce2746e474435bb463f
font_01_sfnt_off000101dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DC 17160 bytes
SHA-256: cdbc1a3149eb434e72119b33e6c0dae568813c8b22b0fa58472d5b6876979f7d
font_02_sfnt_off00012e62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1