Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc7652034c14b37a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 22:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0303c026491f238340e4201189136090 SHA-1: ffda3165eec80baa7e85ac04eede01d28c27ac85 SHA-256: cc7652034c14b37a3f06ca77327edd8bea00a5d6f96a82c6dadc9a104519bf7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/27515254914.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47dc5081e9c752ec7cd43e8516494a00/99628209369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/nuwutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8efdc481e0b7539533343909211fd623/wovumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a4ee4509416a32d5e90be4cd770eca/leneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d99492763---54129774362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160959a045af4e---zazipatobexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30485be08b---denusuvulemawobomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/xugape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d6cc13b00a07c3dcd795ed70318e27/82363930746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb857b9390db84670a0e80afbc86b0b4/toseligegonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/voratuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2896a9faee---moxizonekixekujavinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5379c37fea1f049506cd0122badc0628/54128385440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49747111938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/706e8e1022ac0f31cdb5efef02415f85/fusigonudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c929ad85f03029d219de4865d243f6/burime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085673122d64---zuzesapuderakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghemassagenhatban.vn/Images_upload/files/60995850730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/71271457619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/duboseriwosovanalosovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d8f66e49f8709e23c42058419b79e8/feresetipige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4095d1b56a---86250984712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ff930b3e938187d69806e1ec31acf4/zugokemitavunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/tabumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/xemuginotudakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/39458366048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=livro+sol+da+meia+noite+completo+onlinePDF 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_off0000f1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C2 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 08186c29d657a8070fcd9408684769017b18867f531571b06df726a3cff9dfec
font_01_sfnt_off00010a41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A41 20660 bytes
SHA-256: 65a48048e2179774c39928541652b674b90a49088f0a53ffeadb06c72035e26f
font_02_sfnt_off00013db3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1