Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc117a6e660eb49c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 11:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 97c02c073c658f8ea5d51a75e1dc066b SHA-1: d653c145340f374a76a05ad0507e9a1451150e28 SHA-256: cc117a6e660eb49cea7879bd360798373c938ee2e3c67a6822d906e46db71f78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing or malware distribution technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+maria+montessori+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/18308600159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50bcbd6fe100f59dbae85403f3a8bcb0/47522036420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f06ce47bc---milopedetofomopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/wopijerawedurivoredumumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubemakingmachine.com/uploadfile/files/98093773531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/selurogixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiameds.com/images/upload/files/56239745755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50513146168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08da1f0e69---27713507036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe20316469---xulozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9411e9ede3bae5a20bf26f567efde1/wugukuponosiverezozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bdc6d5a0b---woboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/5882811340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/marujulufesivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8965812989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fajapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v97c0bjqk6gno78hv91jo5724g/78936188404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1382e6d67---garotufonulofasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/xodaxuvuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210812032020_cp345g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caffedisanto.it/file/fasonavixazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/45868832475.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_off0000fdf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF4 18796 bytes
SHA-256: 8d0be32c6ae486b8138c6bd02ae7d32226643853a7dc3fe8d10d456d46414386
font_01_sfnt_off00012e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14639 10712 bytes
SHA-256: d86472624ac0800ac8ae242d5f910272a4917082b9179f6707eda7cf9c2d17b7