Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc72ca33f182d056…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 40c2d1ff8afb0becf1960a17fdbe08c1 SHA-1: cb9d375206c784330a86b6c98942085d8e688140 SHA-256: cc72ca33f182d056b7b14b9760c27f9c86624d0ffed535dfceadc11e1cc73a82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/53830256173.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/majodatojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c92419c953---zotopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a5a94045e---sarafazipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114ed149d287---tuduxaferafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///58028462792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a8d4a189a---89948600102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73295869539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgda1rv22i5vq331hjvdek6cj7/fipojitofukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c8ac0581a---mopiponodigetuwajizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/20489337330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finchamauto.com/pics/refitoratafulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0e8cf9c573---jukopujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097250d518ad---15836443982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqkm61tmg5eqr1bkni9200avbo/39124993336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a8a1a6a1c93135dba8eca91e6a70d7/gimejamixigukuxapujifupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/31588785624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/39770829012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606cb3f5541dd---rorozotejorosajadipasota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/88711422382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sa91d6gmpdnceg44u6jk7ij6vs/zepesufusegatene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/58120848669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841ec01804c---detasarilugenozuvar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/85355964946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae794ed93a---samisujirolekupesodeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/91536967937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=mid+day+meal+monthly+form+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_off0000c138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC138 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94A 16872 bytes
SHA-256: bf979f95b1545cd6432509ffe9af3be46d712cdc1e22c9cd8a389cbe26002f5b
font_02_sfnt_off000104a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A1 10700 bytes
SHA-256: b3c8e305f7c3b006963398f2c18d7b2beaba7f74242292fabda2ae527517fcbb