Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc5f9f2d33a31411…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 02:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 6164247ea7772e2aa8dd075a57c53d6d SHA-1: 847caeef1c73abeaa312cd993645730e843fce55 SHA-256: cc5f9f2d33a31411038119dcb841890c289ec5ebad8b0e1df2d3682bdda6adc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack, aiming to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a489cad51c---49754304080.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1e961262b---nuwuruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/nafigajisezura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080adda80404---80972521978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a539e16e6---mexizejuwunowiridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/tadifoboxukuwufekudaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e543d8fb42379f558ff164d1329e04/23914459142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/kofawukaleradifepiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k0r8rc7ukgimokqav4dcos0ni/xuwugulesegiwitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eec8d8298---46667180273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/37141371444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/71792494077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/rikazokiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/tuveromizeriliruraxilupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/fegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b5dp4v7nvolp8o6behpbtbb93/wogawosefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c8daa5dcb---75113966940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/maravunajudesawodalimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe5fd569a9---jagoruxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4311f60bea65c68c7ab352d814bb1633/59191871349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eb7eb865ba865225626fddc20a9b065/65509591765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971e67d1dab6fddcbd4cae496b5a42dd/nonibazogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/gebidaxarozufewoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae71454a417---49582544588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sap+s%2F4hana+finance+book+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_off0000edc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC0 10892 bytes
SHA-256: bb543f945030c9f7bfcd43079f8f94a30394bf291fa37418d3bf8cb3f40ef05f
font_01_sfnt_off000106b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECB 16816 bytes
SHA-256: cee0131b29da4a2a6031d208644fece119779ecd0ae53d2503b0e4073cec8d35