Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc044dd1e82b1c8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 90216b8e5f2500e606cc3c4c377ad3f6 SHA-1: d3ff77a58c3ac95bf7af4ef24121e7185459e6d8 SHA-256: cc044dd1e82b1c8dee0aa29b6a742dea90b61fadf994de22401c4fbc4dd19cba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious URLs. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics suggests it exploits PDF vulnerabilities or uses PDF features to host these links, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed30038b50445c2f23ffd37fe019fbc/69045516772.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51323396843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/gixazanuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cihiqpf3q6so6v94slecj866s6/pitepudanere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tjd5bsp049qbp8g4o341glu54/53183442755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0484166b49---82132452878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq2v71vrirp4ullleo6msd626c/bigoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26o2g1dcg0j9qpochljl978efu/mobatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/nenunira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3980b6fdae997fbd10f964159ff53b/kavedolajoleboganuxabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/bopirudalugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6069f758b2---fewijajiwujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/51587198877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3acba01f95---82956613448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/45488666853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62108450637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/segipaselutukinosonibefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/66648005226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a322d45e5c5---54267379739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmrh.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/73479646853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c61005f63---45073747026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d07779fe4---16969046083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/mimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b106965b32e---79218354102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb0d33c60620d3698464ff7f94e07eb0/vafodolaluwofitokirejazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/navazewibifujixulobiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/kabotubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=much+or+manyPDF 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_off0000e62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62C 10168 bytes
SHA-256: f4bf5cac459e277265046612e44ab9be0682214edf87d1749edeb1c1c728e5c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBE 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 69eebcc4fa28547ab98533a54fd74ef4698004b709db912d01638623e915d6c5
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1