Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ccdbecadd02f512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-05-14 16:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7bfbf6cb331e33f5e4cb2a8c925f02e5 SHA-1: a3069b17cb9b3c10e5a487f57bdcb9821b32ddc3 SHA-256: 7ccdbecadd02f512b3bf61d1d29192f2814cc2c5066fd8b520a607a20f67bc7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The document body, though heavily corrupted, suggests a lure related to university registration forms. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories indicates a pattern of hosting malicious files on seemingly legitimate but compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073909b2bb1f---mofemaxefiri.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609052a8f12c1---vafoxuzav.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh3vaqoiabpfbnmaggctfj9s9m/20812217643.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v496id2v6d40ulakhpjm6ndb71/sugepilufe.pdf
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10994ff9967597dcc4091d6c85c86835/13403756819.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/xevagusa.pdf
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b1ed4b25b1df017d228953aea3e8f7/kowubeworikejuvu.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b36f900f95---44199205402.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe75164b84---pepakisixolewu.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f54d0bed77---pitezubuvutij.pdf
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/guwasisinuroxebo.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn8h24d2mjm0eupp3a1e0hn2nf/21584756418.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b61067ac4b209d57cf898daac3a9df9/roposuraximexuxotanuxuna.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffe7a0ebad964c8aeea3f9b4f23ba350/lefavofuzed.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769cbca2d67---11158254536.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bilaspur+university+online+registration+form+2018
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d830.bin
f593cf1d339dd88a0cea999e49ce8e4541f906cfd6750210968fdef736854cff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD830 5952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec74.bin
feb5353f69db264af6bc144621868c34373697e12343e8ad40fcd3a7ef283c83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC74 10712 bytes