Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc054dc4f75b543f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 13:06:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 81349b389dacd0422aed3ff5e0a9274d SHA-1: 280dd8c139385549db2ad48326f7ae27529da59b SHA-256: cc054dc4f75b543fc76d97289c6e6e0261c6161ae2f0bdfbb240f16ef67f5a13
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised or disposable domains, identified as a link farm. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam context. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature, indicating it's likely used to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/gajod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30b3fdebb7dd55e824a788a0009b1b32/satujuvizogibebuzovaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66575782784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f289dfb886d---xezufinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejewedotuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/19117649677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608482cba7d23---4641410930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d4d57deb6---benimufevofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/6809289207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984b686179d---9427479865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8012020bfb368216b97b28acea2eaf5e/ruretaxexejezopiritu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7761781c56---60704565666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/wobosapodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6085a4a9b82c2a1baa190109a8450ab/36533725730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609285822011d---11771455720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjihnite7bbupnelv0jflfrrnq/kuraputotelikajebinased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b562b13a085---fawove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/138478447560a9826e99ed6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908fa0213b9---88122226163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bfp5sdgr290egvijfdl5asq9v/lejudumufejijuvakafebopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimivibogojexev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0a70fec8722d8c76f0e9c8d2a94f610/37667143489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711eff10f77---21461021238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=orchestration+meaning+in+cloud+computingPDF 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_off00013351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13351 11084 bytes
SHA-256: b85d166f5a178a268ca41f1b1dbe18f362d3e529870c42bd111df93868719a01
font_01_sfnt_off00014cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CC9 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 94e05855e4d4d144b9d136a30d747bf6efa2098b485e5b5b0929e94234a370c0
font_02_sfnt_off00017c9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1