Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0630d74706bffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 631a322b3fd9ad1d94d4c127aa5cff0b SHA-1: 6c921ce140aa2a13aafbfcab0e6ceac38f0623d8 SHA-256: cc0630d74706bffcbbaaa0de3b21b6694c810bde692381ddcb9310ba014ae9b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gordon%27s+11+functional+health+patterns+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/40337518667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/wevetemigaxudabuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/pirepefasedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403467826ab---98088354389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/16428373318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/70789441923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugejedimivelalujogonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtrade.gr/userfiles_lybo/file/6945691830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/45635870761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/17397114039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/13262203076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigapilar.com/upload/files/25429041609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/pagazumufolojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b23066fc7---vodileturapefiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonhanint.com/uploadpic/sun/files/202109061609596187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/56611194128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/94472680653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/98037377675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/wuxezirifilugaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614521acdd195---tixanatepumepugimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/40491345389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/84475159941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/40587408349.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_off0000e48e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48E 16884 bytes
SHA-256: fb14e505ee837a0c3315306e95073fd70ef54e4d967ea3330c5e9dd7f3c75f65
font_01_sfnt_off0001100d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12824 11088 bytes
SHA-256: b1b749b483db3cb23d68b74ad13edcbbf6ab2e25d021a374390679b751cc37ac