Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc4b3c486d324a66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 08:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 577a374147b71987e270aa2040d076c6 SHA-1: d8a89b55040746a80cabec6e0b95d5596f8299d8 SHA-256: cc4b3c486d324a665846ea46b2972c1aa051eafff5eaba84904d5ef796618164
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely lead to the download of further malicious content, as indicated by the ClamAV detection and ML classifier. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or download process.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poco+launcher+update PDF link annotation
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28096878108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/86622395450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/tamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/pejananarulexobibiketam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d016794136---xugera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/95437758699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/17465942246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eurosecurimed.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63651691898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/23957861535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72700744599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilumakoremetulaxobasivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fibertech1.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82759321204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/53310836556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njmmbked4om2gbj06tc40viqo0/wapagezimiminewotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cb7eada11---xaxajojuvugakakimabifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/nixijupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34065837995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a3389b19ce---feropusegamenete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/76824155150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/83948488610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/16228915189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijieet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mibabexisew.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b1dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1DC 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 24cbfb5ab9b578c2dea71c01f6ce25ddb2489e8dfeba8a8390cbe843dc8943f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC985 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 7c7127ef7361258385b0784f32c80446f0751f1602594617e50ed6415301adc5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF34A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1