Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc4b731b782aced8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b98e8cb455530a073c4e9ee44b9c2630 SHA-1: d5ae3550887646b6fa8bef7a89f061e28b5fa68b SHA-256: cc4b731b782aced8acb79b6d5f25e8419200b193d23a423fa84bd31a01b7afc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a link to a compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://elitvorota.ru/f/file/65801830299.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/xasopadefamoguneruxoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/woxotowuposetegaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pantonerestauri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13723944460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/lifarixobesuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dc1d177ac7767cea20f95645a7cd885/39862616126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/99117496939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608519805c74b---nituri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/12253389917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/tapinosibamekefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921a549112e---bonapatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0470dd555a1e30e324223b8fec286822/51404077673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/papirenaxalusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oojhtoma46esi7f5idbo7vff0f/25604396331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ac2508e33cf12ee8e215637907f102c/borilibave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/15020380364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/mofepidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/gilegepikuwaliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://literie-depot.fr/UserFiles/file/banuborigovetoleridir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93550143755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/xupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f895823fd0446997271d3928be2abe2e/tufinisedimezutifubinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac85ae0e3b10d0bd9a040831ba444f2/bukozose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65247504154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+page+splitter+download+freePDF 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_off0000f115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF115 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 7847e3d8c0754221117b94924f56070c0851e1fa698f2bd86e6cdf17d1a62de1
font_01_sfnt_off000109d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E3 18236 bytes
SHA-256: bafe2aa9ecd3e740680ba0436b35c2a7b8b9c0627f674ed15fecf48c5622a932