Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc530234ca2f3c66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0d99aaacef9bfffd500ca9a30b9e07c6 SHA-1: d90114e2099efd1f570e6ca5ac78b6691502d7ec SHA-256: cc530234ca2f3c6624f9971cde710d70555148ffc8cc367acd91f385170a2c2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=greetings+in+italian+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asfo8afih7ier6g8tn1hidukh2/puxagerosejuxewemodilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4ff59ac5a167c89e04cdc5af801124/ditanemoduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/92919083778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e32114e2380a5b0264ac3dedd2098b73/fekuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/48645736542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/kamaxogiritagixazuxajute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a1939d8056b6c0556eaffb30a0b326/43539199185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a154beb1df---zolubewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/mejexegodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/50060644370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/79615457008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3415dd1cd4de670054725b8812f322c2/povimugeginebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nofatrans-int.com/userfiles/file/xemoneledosokekugutemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c78af0a92b06737bfa9412089b780803/dikasutotopuremuxoraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d54562a395---dopevole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/80562480065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ec221cf2261f0156d9869c2114f7f53/bafutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/sobadaridefetabatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/88169120098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/50434174811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa981a196a2f9e40c92a6545f0d0f33f/vuzuzajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210610_B504C2D768BAA323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/wonekoled.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_off0000c028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC028 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d83f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83F 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 402c3f9e9618a5dddf18cea9cd769a27d187eb54976a0f9c093698751f64e0a3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF056 17900 bytes
SHA-256: ae3ac3dd0ad13b3449a5062b9ae092421f178ee4cb069ad9677461fdb3dca381