Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2f961b7cc13f4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 01:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c24c472ca10c99fae29844192864e176 SHA-1: 043c3a58bb92104367a8acaa1b2663dd6ad6561b SHA-256: cc2f961b7cc13f4d755d5e3ed0698fa88bf2cc8c8b0dae5cc0bd7e110696fc8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+9+motion+notes+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/62934331617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bba4f8ee267180147bac70c2dde3a26/zajemukadibomazebiwemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a2075a75f---38237768340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/5702695885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/37187362329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v853jic577okpnal6ss8m3fhl/sapajilulepusiwavelesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/xafimekufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf34a2e8074---tezatita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kdou87gi0jpplfl6kvn03cbnq/27332728700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae98fed40f1---toposavutebomepamulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3r8b9opv9q8kcpig0om97b5e07/7783484395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aae0aec3c---64045302519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eac1da60a---ruvupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087311a370e2---xuxereze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/vokokatajanupipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/zexixubogevirewunotipokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ffa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA3 5244 bytes
SHA-256: b288eaf6410eb11791d22979abc81148224958089f5fd063abe7e7f811880343
font_01_sfnt_off00011174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11174 11228 bytes
SHA-256: a389240190b05f7c325adbf11f227e10aa718ec541c8ecbfc904a997a690ccbf
font_02_sfnt_off000137f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F9 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 51b8d4c4f17389d80b23040d591c0dccb099bca9103ea84f58116e310badbe13