Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0cc3ff0941d1b45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 12:02:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 05b25704524ff3f71e8a7f761c75e042 SHA-1: 0d5f1d7145fa1467c4f9ab9404e1d7c8551b7a23 SHA-256: c0cc3ff0941d1b45e6bbf246c9ac90bce05e18c0cef9dd0e19a7a95836de8c28
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. These links form a link farm designed to redirect users to download sites, likely for malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=super+mario+64+apk+android+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130521a6bc48---5426467459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/businewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/40288431891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivati.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/11031947412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/20219291211319803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkm173ds9kn2sbct7q7rjmgrr2/xomowotamojuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75505792104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/bezavivividalewetegivapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614da37640629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/43221320248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210914084948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioferrato.it/userfiles/files/xilolinuvamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents/files/jejipevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21261615375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1633043765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/dawemiruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6369854802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/fedazefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/jarefotixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/58345271027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangneylaw.com/admin/images/file/20000395148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurosan.pl/user_images/file/65604160418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/491f8b9706eea69b4d14b2de2acf7ebc/juxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8fef75d7828460988403c1c348cb435/sugitekerawabi.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_off0000b355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB355 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 8ceb763a0e36d9bb6aaae1b2c553e35135931fe1c79443274fbe7500168fc558
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A0 14776 bytes
SHA-256: 5be637f84909f97e2b76c18e12b5d35f00701e46fa14cd76b878fedeb12ce3c5