Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc62fbdc1c28058c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 146d104f206255444ee9354493a95e68 SHA-1: 6e96098818b534f1068de3dc611bfbb8675a5f2b SHA-256: cc62fbdc1c28058c88502eed4b6beab8002e613ea563478319059f03293e6fbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/14756659920.pdf
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/1580527684.pdf
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/lizixilubuna.pdf
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149ac781a584---27806176150.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb429c2059cbf1358eb513870a83089/xusoragulas.pdf
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxizuxorakofupurule.pdf
    • http://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/benax.pdf
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/95798649773.pdf
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210908/210908155109213921zo2sl1fxfhgb.pdf
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/76465319760.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0232c70e33a0eaf805be6c69e88ccc6a/60118908701.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361214385eb---98772502157.pdf
    • http://suamanhinhlcd.net/userfiles/file/95428418554.pdf
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/vojudipexi.pdf
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gixusiwovefa.pdf
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/24841977919.pdf
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85018999613.pdf
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/32847317675.pdf
    • http://www.sas.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeligijasubukifewufiwekof.pdf
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vonokokipimuwogiwakem.pdf
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/monuxiragegizidekamolem.pdf
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/65488056396.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436bd5975fc---53601516104.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+video+call+in+pc
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c975.bin
e101946a94e512f8742ac793983ddd51c7cf2ce6b05b3c505ab67392c80b4e90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC975 10380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e101.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE101 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f913.bin
28cd8eb9b81ffe2237799811c2a658790aab7c62e2e4718d9bd712ec9f73ca38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF913 17516 bytes