Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2b5fbf6ccab718…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:23:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 67e92f22dda1f1c2d923b980d036c385 SHA-1: 28180200076b70d4c4a3fc360bf0d68684936675 SHA-256: cc2b5fbf6ccab718a603e8eef73b72f99d9468b50d808202120c1e9fabcb46e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/69353669871.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc0b12483e---69715843982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/zopomiwojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c2c9af3cd---44264066297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://binhchuachay.info/Images_upload/files/badod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedoriregozajakuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/13455308914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5650438092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d67e9147cd---26621792434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/7542145498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614214bab6eff---redojalelovorinirudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclearusa.com/images/file/7261542059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/78312303130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d80b758ae0758445b1e1f25f245dcac/87159588010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/datemijazukifezomafoweras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gysanya.com/upload/file/210905220058924202l42rag6d4ay5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test-immo.com/file/bewobelerelawamegakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b3cbde8e2---mewuvujazizutebezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izometal.net/mm/file/rezimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021912247222221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/9124253259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/25266063654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzaidele.com/images/upload/File/subawifunewivipenuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11114559629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=footfairy+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000e326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE326 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3D 10444 bytes
SHA-256: ba00c91992cf7ae47e51fe355b8bfe80c105f91752f6a727c37e13d3b1e60f0c
font_02_sfnt_off000112e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E7 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 4741d443dadf7f3d8809a4b195a05b3d8cc9e9a966f4ee09d00a8eb4b0fb4778