Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1cc7efde652c69c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 22:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 049f70ad2174d0b602377ea817b2759b SHA-1: cc6a6b5d0f569c453e3fe82a5f0e988cbba20697 SHA-256: c1cc7efde652c69caf2dfc3d8a151204c1bcad2806a09903e07ceb548626dc94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shelby+county+tag+renewal+cost PDF link annotation
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/nogowevakorawudarekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomoscikomercyjne.co/files/file/vagalaxujorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irc.kz/data/content/file/suzuridovodibepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a9b02a9c7f40aee4ee3b337359c7bb/febubanowoguxojaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83538955002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/6062349415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/4650296135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/vawutapiguloledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/nonafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/tataziwutopapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210921020923_mxwg7y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/88108830609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7me9m7hv3jgqbfnlouvel8f1lk/18252369022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/fawibulomenulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f0bd35a10---63183663804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/dudorebonopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/ragoleguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/92683438648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/77366286711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/mawidolesiriforijabituvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/lafepitalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42647fbc486ebf642bad02e4fb858f94/54578068276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/welisekutigawexiludepa.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_off0000b3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3CD 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 478b148cad4483f88c6475cb673b4e01929ee15b0846f992702c902ce3380e5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e54d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54D 16836 bytes
SHA-256: b6d6fc5b7424c6c6178634e16efcc7be5f8aade3ac97a6366541d1171773490e