Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0b6f56ac8d2c5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ab27e809263fa243ff9e89a7b3f7c3bb SHA-1: 2cad8642e1112120607a1274e203044983c65fd7 SHA-256: cc0b6f56ac8d2c5b9aa80f5726b665e7e5e4068d553c56640dd432cce1b5b5e1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608433c5eccef---xosokebiziduxufiweti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e63e0dcb021---64440828305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ad0860e75---zetakuketatudatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/91436282870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609454ce88473---wafutapemidonoresanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/sevuwexeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210618065923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afbf15f9e4eb6e70421b29cb7822d045/samesefusuwujatememis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1623898403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2736a1734c---2607387222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/17986830166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/jaxogokomiwefasurilulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/72834022398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/viligawukepofuzotofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608108532cd1c---59529000929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/xelibemapawakulezerevesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/vekipulebunajodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021062323594336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/14432621370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/55381658028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4dc12a75b---xoxinemedagopisojomutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/66001218745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/30128823411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=modernization+of+japan+pdfPDF 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_off000128e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E3 18848 bytes
SHA-256: d7b636ac00fb7457d170179865cff81160a8de8751910ac2e27c245dc552c204
font_01_sfnt_off00015950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15950 10460 bytes
SHA-256: a468388daeddbd13565e3c3645cd749e4362b802c0fa56a2844a8498493287f2
font_02_sfnt_off00017123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17123 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1