Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc25c086e4dc8fa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 00:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 721ceb48aa4f3c6f68daed5a2e5204d1 SHA-1: fd9417b029702c2368d2f9290dcef3b8419bd5ff SHA-256: cc25c086e4dc8fa9dd4df20fb644dd5b6b71925135d1114fce955bb95a2ade79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The file's structure and URL distribution align with a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/92519438960.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161133ed15fe44---27010498615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1cfca4d5158037f7b810ff50e3bb37/xiridavipidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8et4o4utlasadsgb6ko8bej7n8/11510126880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/lumeturanopijuxexoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/raxegasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210505161356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1a8e878fa---18909998053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4006b4371---dazato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d88ae080a---nulenixakavaromavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxsolar.com/d/files/30867811003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevizarafozibugumewida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/fipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1627834093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leresto-niort.fr/images/userfiles/files/44071512737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/95133512889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/pitalosapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083120f29c6bff2d7d86bf2aab0e38ce/29011700315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g68qn13hf8qt55trucc9jj4qh/69701911036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/ripage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/99442901381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c2af032d4101290aed7c977da96032/kuninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/jotimonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=warrior+cats+movie+trailer+2019PDF 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_off0000eefa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001070c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070C 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 0b6d48d78841fe361ba608760b9e943b12b31beccf35a534b871566db2e45a71
font_02_sfnt_off000134e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E3 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 4c62ccaa7e2b875e005f56328865eac79956200d8779f925188754812ea02e1f