Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc6d71e4676d43eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3f4847acad230f8b7e501d77cf734992 SHA-1: 07c18b623aa31876b930aecd1b3e971c92ac396d SHA-256: cc6d71e4676d43ebc193aa53b5694cb107bae9836bd8435bbf2e06080f10fb71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The numerous embedded URLs and link farm heuristics suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites, likely to download further malicious content. The use of compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mini+militia+mod+apk+2020+v5.1.0 PDF link annotation
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/vijujaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srutimusic.org/userfiles/file/lepepirisegajajixuregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crpm.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73877705622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7f673614011794da156b733e2a70b9/46108979846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/61261796758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0eoorok1juajt2tebco855p98/78227506324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvetrlkpn8dlp5d6cnf7fiur71/93359323009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c05e5f234e3ac60999742331d8962ea/bitinurizapunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c6102f4ac---giwapejogige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/8399511989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/virujiboveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/wulodupidejowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/taseroxisajafopuvowokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/1617727616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c1a6369ef---sufigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081668f9e907---32341125872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/8185876336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddf0242ec59---boxawinisaleritikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/luwogebewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulamixijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92df9e0affdec361f3bd9aca4be040b1/samusovunutobeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6786de34205fa598585e23676dffdaa5/71020354611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/197334802260a03975a6061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/belekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1872809c22e583250ff78cffc18c0c7c/wozazavesorelononidoduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f9792d6c3f2b9da15d3c86a5827dbf/20477828344.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_off0000f6ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EA 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 936bb7f420f1c58726c7b6177a51587e0d1d56522a0d2344fc1d518401970142
font_01_sfnt_off0001232e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1232E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B45 10796 bytes
SHA-256: fa4b7df5409055ace23a2583b22a9e8b890dc0dad4f82758650e6659daf86c84