Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc6b416a935a21b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5dfaa485ed77fbaf3fd8b8714ddc0678 SHA-1: 487b21e26cec60c49a4b572afec1afebe44e9e18 SHA-256: cc6b416a935a21b10b80b723c3ca5f9d9867c240cc879265e9e36f0a9146e8e2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the ultimate destination or to poison search results. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+wifi+password+on+android+phone
    • http://www.ujepites.hu/userfiles/files/kezovapi.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413069d1c5f---susubet.pdf
    • http://js-space.de/userfiles/file/21836221202.pdf
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/99174452550.pdf
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/51599391892.pdf
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/60749653394.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614103d91598e---30417207053.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428c2029dcd---61200789258.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebf457c166---50301333492.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138532c4c9db---noban.pdf
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/16078144302.pdf
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37041686603.pdf
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/sosatinenikobedumon.pdf
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/tiwunotozitunuguzozuzekuf.pdf
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/66983689793.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff47e28b01---sapomawodekepijawijeve.pdf
    • https://campfun.myhost888.com/upload/ckeditor/files/12882544328.pdf
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/22405962305.pdf
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/veraralavilabavorasixoj.pdf
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/divawawajusuwajitaxarid.pdf
    • http://boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31023626090.pdf
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibobarurojepoludeno.pdf
    • http://pop-around.com/file_media/file_image/file/rabakasuzugam.pdf
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bebf7ce6d---50337357076.pdf
    • 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_off0000c476.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC476 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc8d.bin
7efaf31a325346348f33120cfe0b7d098ea95c365b0034c4794795d9ebc43d41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8D 10512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f469.bin
42cb383f2f0a430fd096ac9022507a334b82cb8c4628aca59527d8099561bceb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF469 17816 bytes