Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b55ccc003b2c6f26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:09:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2266e0ccd1481eac6ea4e3e5a765b237 SHA-1: f9bcb66c8bbc36b0eacaeaaff1d5a2d34571cf60 SHA-256: b55ccc003b2c6f26a3571aecbacaf836ea5995ca5f9901b68611627f24833557
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm or hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=gta+5+android+ppsspp+zip+download PDF link annotation
    • https://valkexclusief.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/33323814323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37288986859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/1276692266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imoroz.by/upload/file/5983681004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikepofugupumajikuzutomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/devosanegatokobopizagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipawuxadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/62824213955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/20853818014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613997a2a19c8---89071186740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/kusuborawirevaradovaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozora.schaffsen.com/contents/file/6920408582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418e9a8cc0fab53789788870e25f6705/36798420581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/13547134571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/ginaditekebimuboxilenuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133bc4ab0bf3---37441312161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36300650788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/19451177381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueleaves.ru/userfiles/file/24156758105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarujigurumuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81206600458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/fizojamuwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392b22e87b4---13823713132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekakuwigifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210907/16309558222334.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_off0000ca65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27C 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 315e65ca7e4b750648f681d095f1508895cc243b8727c2599638baafe206809f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADB 17284 bytes
SHA-256: b43f9332e1a9da6e84006e5370cb55d4d913abd1ffdbd68a67a65fde11f15bc0