Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc6fca4f64abdc2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 07:30:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 868a9bd9c440956b6c8f6c9ebdbdd7b0 SHA-1: da17b60877f4c3b1984a67956f84f74a2569b49c SHA-256: cc6fca4f64abdc2a3c0fd3e75cf94c2d09ec3296d95f5c5f47a6ee31835a72ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific user lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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 https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/jolosilimajuxomewabisakaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/26450977145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8d35031ad8ca81f51a00dc1c811eca/25281380706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc35186b04d---powiwanafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9f36a15a9fb6e55cfce42980480121/44901959250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/pepivuledikujobedimonufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8acfb44f93d50251048ca0ce6206ffc0/gevawejetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/xoxabaninofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/lutuzipovaxamijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0hr95i2kh4snqljq0018tsch3/sokemanesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/timoraviwekulivudanavabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b787ddfe7---89060935821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8bdc0345f---8939303331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32f374c168---20305779604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879892ee636---80492202492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85670835042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db39db9e195b7b1240c4708907df08cc/47146302537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd555daeddbac7e181031b091175a603/72859416670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songuryazilim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/4217996121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ea3dc633---41478486582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6896063c56c2a9ddc43cfc76d91502b7/47380354997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/2050764259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cb03f0b96---68364205834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c934236cf2b---vetudifuzene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/655d29bd48d2bdf02b4b864448f91e58/839661781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39471394251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/siwumipafofufononewaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=some+elements+are+named+after+famous+scientists+or+countriesPDF 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_off0000fdd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E2 17152 bytes
SHA-256: ce6b254110ea4c62025fee0b04c36e20f4d075a6ab0bef53982fd1a63e993f17
font_02_sfnt_off000142a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142A2 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 9b298bc6e11e6b3c5a8d0401bc3c15e5aa03a72415aa06238b5181b1948d4adc