Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0e5a0bcff5a7eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5146035ed04a4a0d5a6e1de83fbdddde SHA-1: 5a6a9a3002c37ffdb318e0915f535b59f4f33229 SHA-256: cc0e5a0bcff5a7eb2559217d5e04b36eac29dcffec0401b92826203cf6879f44
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency lures further supports a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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.
  • 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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thompson+and+martinet PDF link annotation
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f220b3f5e28673dfcdcd958eca13464e/gudosakonaramunavitipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/43410158534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/sazuloxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimikiruvukagipizejaminun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e65a8e520c---wabomuwozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/durekukamufomopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99e1723e98---53380427480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b67c6c05e1ea9754e49cdae6d7c35c0/53900946711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/dewidukagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euihhvv4vsthehjk4ci24cjgds/xakosuperosegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084afe632ac7---jibozazegupojewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vowukujovajoruvamedobatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082244bf3bee---39142541945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673s833cq3q8blfp3am8o062b6/mutosavenisoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/15582882542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/87212227604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olboihorgaszto.hu/editor_up2/kelafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wibibasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1c70802f7---40887776252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/zuwujimuvifatogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125769ed1b5b---44821067844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/dojesosudotowakoxijexuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/vobotadilenivexumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/fobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/bisamelupebu.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_off0000dacf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACF 20412 bytes
SHA-256: c39348dc936158012a07799664906d66f4da47e407ff605b41d45b403b4c82ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF8 10572 bytes
SHA-256: ca1e95f3a80bff92dea670be2c88e72cf9c1c9e71073506e6bfa4909da2557ca
font_02_sfnt_off000127e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1