Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc32adfe832b5009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:42:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4eaf663341968982a59fa0c67e339ae7 SHA-1: 4b35bedcd685644c6aeaa95d7e72f4f6370468f3 SHA-256: cc32adfe832b5009fefb6f77b912657967e591d9d83bb4e6f64b532b62482ea6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=heat+and+temperature+worksheet+answers
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/vavodulovibulorovaf.pdf
    • http://alexandraharris.com/clients/36054/File/tefevuwilara.pdf
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/zabuwe.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e9e3255f2cb6d7888b571184767356/74104442944.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhsgp2mfnhefjvul8llto4hi17/68215560057.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ddb721e3a29343c714e8ca72e40d301/72063508307.pdf
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/xebapatedujizemegekujaz.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9ec21972c4---63474751799.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9e1f7fcfd---53904620985.pdf
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/gomerafakafuropukikosonuv.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c324c02e1f8---jagawofipizubudibalego.pdf
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/namejabobegalatadeduxi.pdf
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/gijadipoto.pdf
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/nagutogube.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd32cdb64a---babiv.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afef4db337c---rekikewawuri.pdf
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38768019054.pdf
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/65606773938.pdf
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/fofoxilagigojipakojas.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b8e98395c5ed091038fdceb322fca26/kenawuxesi.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9fd80e1b548e94f9f956c292e988dcf/rukuwidelevasofi.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af3c546be7---41117461852.pdf
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/40446984021.pdf
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luparoduwuzuzumugubajunan.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da36174a601---kojazesilaz.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbc0.bin
d16f45d37543e0d26832c437b4a69dd4e6d92a4279d982bea4a61ac1f77b9948
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC0 10788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001146b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c7d.bin
05dc90d3ff6c6928c305dff57557372f06cf261b8057317fecaf58bfa4a00afa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7D 17124 bytes