Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc5c2e3dda9587c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:22:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 350ac6fdfd9ac4ae7a8bef1e5a319176 SHA-1: 6c0cd7a09a037f5b230f85c9943c3a8e0703018a SHA-256: cc5c2e3dda9587c53e10bca62daeed4360005581de90c841f980f619460e9108
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rom+linux+android PDF link annotation
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/77178990145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///94205345694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/71635486162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/95559473239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67903767129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614731dd5c0eb---99637740601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/75655218329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/26819672412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/lewitabotutawumorefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ca73208d7---rimofonusinapesuzipavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/fujaxabugapulopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novehorizonty.sk/userfiles/file/15800790777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/goboweniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/95301841675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/21074132175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/62712724359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1968892149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145bec5c6a56---18134343434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e81c76060---lunajunanafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fongyoskert.hu/userfiles/files/suziduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/32023487520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/fazubemezel.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_off0000e843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE843 19300 bytes
SHA-256: 5efd37b94e711e9a02c5096193417660174143caab4c1f66b79c3fc4083590f2
font_01_sfnt_off00011adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F2 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 462f5a8528d126104a554e9ad0a27f74efe044f41d033714bceb587bf87f3a5b