Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc52a8c00e669ba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.1 KB Created: 2021-08-05 22:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 2a507b51cfb693e130740f699a585e58 SHA-1: e757b232fa31971e7aef62fa97cde6f09b238e4d SHA-256: cc52a8c00e669ba654692e76d6b6be7a45d19c66c25c0e4943f551a0e05762d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/89039830176.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvpdpdbvi26vod3svrcap80nvl/nibedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/demenemugixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/gexunezowidilovikubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e57c494c8b8a46e7a4a1ecb0a6ca2c/29518833379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb90e9a08cb2981d3f9eafad2714cd70/sorutipizosaletukape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fe064e5df98349c438f10a1cdfaec29/82147871626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/42484755074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/41342312749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/gisivodenunapavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/gusilavevuvezoxukuraburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/05/15/file/20210515_204303_126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/bivaxakilumopidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/98047206984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kosukefipokojozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/todiselefowulisogabepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/ruwabifav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/vizodejoravita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e70a331a5---zatuxebimidedikexolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/84625354738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb53ab0fd0---wazoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18345688144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e15b22561---54806505557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d142901153d2b895026a427df8d6d99d/24025804547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/tewulakaribupiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+apply+for+ehsaas+program+8171PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off000178f7.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x178F7 33508 bytes
SHA-256: b4c299621f6c21c8bfb0e34a76693ecd657f65dec7944cdde0de54a5218a782d
font_00_sfnt_off000132a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A7 17032 bytes
SHA-256: f5510fb685f8b0dcd97feea9d6f01707ffd0443d5d0b4ca315ef90aef1c1d1fc
font_01_sfnt_off00015ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EC1 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9d447bc9c03883c68fdc4b4d296d5d4822257b8569ae34886325fcff9c5f75
font_03_sfnt_off0001b258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B258 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1