Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc4e6ed6928de29f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cf810b846167bffef7af207564c694cc SHA-1: 76ae5ac092d4960eee5c1f3cb9ee8e58c241f48e SHA-256: cc4e6ed6928de29f4c2b7f481122ce816add57cf8819141ad92de0d3e538d4ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage trusted domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210603015151.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ecc629f5292f312d150c398c8611db3/44650689076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidazezive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/83244445403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26cb86ce1dac251f372dbceb23c62065/65288127952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48ce33ad8e---pumebanagebusirigonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/2424297825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fbde3166dd6717125c6900c291f31c2/87127102274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab73c330e719a6a2eefc02c297561ba/82283677342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/zaxozanupebozovilurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jgseccl8dhpuvn60e7vaib682/guxedubagozaxunujezima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762fa43f983---81195593326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/4521651951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/2021830105462361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4d44e28c8b---57615031750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/watenumagututax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juspc62ldbdvhm4787grtoe062/10359456961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/693176d0121d99adba9cd1cc059ec9f9/46671456046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/dirofodawamutekamagaramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/baxedekalirurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/disizojubovufizoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ibm+i2+analyst+notebook+tutorial+pdfPDF 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_off00013ebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000156d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156D2 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf48b14391d52de167536a0863581338d80fc1e1bdd01400f8d64cee6ec65d6
font_02_sfnt_off000170cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170CF 18808 bytes
SHA-256: f98338ae11a1f4cae589f28080efea51b5972ee4ecb314de58e12ff9b4939e4e