Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2959b0c00ab0cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 00:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ec1d5bfc8062245c225f7ec4141c2be8 SHA-1: f4654efc4a38d4a0e1964a0aa495299ae847f2b5 SHA-256: cc2959b0c00ab0cfcf9cde72cbed55558373d0eddf1f8e9f9643fb892576304e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, directing users to download further PDF files. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates that the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cb6c334cf---luwabomumimalozev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021062122031744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miraclechuppahs.com/userfiles/file/88594007189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44a0094d0aa89dcd6cf73c964938bab/biresew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowanfamilyreunion.com/clients/28915/File/gifunimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d461e22614---88189954972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/55952045941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/masefinutijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifulexemomaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aceb1cb4d94---20776452778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/nakimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/wujidawijilibapejirifixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/60790962829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8671bb0b774077555c0634fa1293106/nakomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ku7srsvimh9uoo694acn0b51o6/46025770324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/kumiluluxilazikuwusedudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/95112947383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rvpfv7adm8h9fit61d1uvgro7/sixuramunijuxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/kobuzekujanikagojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/19930332912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilg7qse7ahfedf77o4tj1vpn7h/zaxuxikomakepopenigopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/48243954016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977737b31ce---18254839066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/89881112508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acba568eaddb23ddf0b13f359f27d7b/fenitafazeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=formula+hidr%C3%B3xido+de+bario+iiiPDF 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_off0000c232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC232 16756 bytes
SHA-256: b20c0000eec1f41bb9b7eb7c809796bc28a6b4e72e9d9ccb765a16b392e1ed9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10518 10600 bytes
SHA-256: e54dfe45fad1661fc6bc0c790c9a613d462d5bf4868a7629ec0748870653b651