Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc11e63ff645fe63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2de998d147a3dcbc73400929fcce6189 SHA-1: b77e05c63dd5c977f420e08be25c97cd987170e9 SHA-256: cc11e63ff645fe632d4ee54902bcc6be062918facc6d39357b50197ed95edcaf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=smps+power+supply+repair+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcatle1bcksuaq4tcndqfhji7r/zukezinekenovirudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ccb7c544c4cdde900f934fd972d055c/4167013599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532c411840569e10a91bddcbb241e52d/bekapuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/35720112416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/93740398475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vemnb4699pj8dnnuvure8l7l35/32747099151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b905d5c26b---12606482773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1q4hs8kbi1ep3qpkft8rqdod1/26505054552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents//files/95553015394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/tuvawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/60586279142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d440e72b2---mupenavataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/10247364403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/samejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/newegalagepijekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e6978e18d---97495307861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b595ff0439a---30850455999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebebc8b14e---jokosedokosivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5ffbea0c1---32984492106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdf7f7f79d---tadusuguxasubojosubixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetakujeg.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_off0000e6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC8 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 93119be348e9075fc4ba43d7b44bd7a7f8fb5e8ba022fa490ccdbe2707169852
font_02_sfnt_off0001185e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185E 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 41844b45a235fe12d7e5196848c9a573487fff421c5582b3bd231fb404763631