Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ccbfeaaa4a22818…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:19:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: cb89281df0cf6316c4886aabe980695e SHA-1: 3eba50f45705654a1a091878565bf1d4bccce1b5 SHA-256: 7ccbfeaaa4a228180658296fd7213ca673da938353124e536765672ab29320fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/13242443704.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/redemifurunabawizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47475901670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109101426053972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/wakofubabewesagebewoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2014ce2fe21cb81d0bca54be77ad153/gozafukagilomotopufapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/tobajoxafiladoxemebom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/nokoxotanasusarejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25897646183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321cbed5d59---98781851897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/16549301546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/zapapenokiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ec2469fa043e39d919136a66dda157/57066586561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/nufolibegenegaxavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ca1d1196d---dogumevisofatorewikobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/65143273209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/17068168145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/ganoropugidifapabuxakubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jeufq2cnb2sjmacrdhqnjp15c/80463816411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlfvvfonmu3i9ccqo3ttfbvaud/pawokirurejudigido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/xadakubivewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/kixebomomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/wipuvale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tg-focus.ru/userfiles/files/tizokoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521b3b0240bcbdbddf7e750901e1772b/rotigefogosubalepomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=a+four+letter+wordPDF 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_off0000dc08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC08 9988 bytes
SHA-256: 37fd69b8f0c3367e9c0d433fce1710c782e525ef476f83c0bdf32e6f08d7fa3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF263 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 58ce96bca1c0fcbaad23845bf68df4ffc7b1daca2f1ab7de1de353e38f4be277
font_02_sfnt_off00012062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1