Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc39d888bd2903ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-08-05 11:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6d40aecf37ad82a6c153b1b9f7ec639e SHA-1: 783a1840a0dc1eb0f381430843f5cc0d1d1d7647 SHA-256: cc39d888bd2903aea1e093555529882dd19e422a0543d357f54c0a9bb81f06f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or malware, leveraging the PDF as an initial lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ivoaipnct8c7a962q2iohlva8/18573613024.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac570903f02---49445848144.pdf
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gixesawawewebozoxudigo.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608646236eb02---tagowofisovi.pdf
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jto2ha1svo7eq3bc0t247cdvp1/68322494688.pdf
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f9060cbf4acb82fc08e20e6935229da/88165567504.pdf
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356e815e58373f06b5c0ea73fc86725c/xaxalupakemiv.pdf
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62750934100.pdf
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/welipufa.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede2a52c150---20386367276.pdf
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/66877618521.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077706a4daa5---7137851928.pdf
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/25608174534.pdf
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/nirotozosil.pdf
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/wisifapinalofulelona.pdf
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouc90b64g3b1oi1dj0pv1cbfpg/mabudurutov.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c3a0c974c90a46989163c7d2e6572e/84529795086.pdf
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/80816708046.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/gagivorizav.pdf
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c158919c6076c6b389f5380c9b15b825/37355672251.pdf
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210623234640_147964706.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8aecea581bb675e28612b4b857efd5/zafeparem.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ecdcb1de---74422833864.pdf
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/lokidixikezufodalomapane.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=kick+return+4+unblocked
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f84a.bin
ad058cf18f8319659e95c3fdd37b4959588135f9c964a06f3a097812dbd5358b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84A 16288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e72.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E72 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012684.bin
adda68c1dfe7fa9b6e9d9b727d26d2546655cd7a3642a249a65842ba4def9f02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12684 17696 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001558f.bin
86773faf652c2ae2743af48c8e603e36dedf8632ff22cb73b42b0ee11c138eea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1558F 10436 bytes