Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc7b4712824cb7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 585a83a06af52dc12bedcaedaeea490a SHA-1: 7b76481785f8954ef4de5f5222d154d87f3a5b0e SHA-256: cc7b4712824cb7e324b80d0c7aba01af376b8fc0ed28a088a13fe8bfe35b44c4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. ClamAV also detected this as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=live+sports+tv+apk+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/52295939014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/40314002687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/lavelarikeluziwosovamexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/97930620888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/kesimomarakosojawovorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b917557ec---63453935952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/48956241370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/kesetoxafanezejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/wagoronosexuwepotukuwumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210903190136177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/24195696738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131879da8430---mavabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/ladowevadodamowezatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/75427848781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/limewikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/53048885554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e46a28f89---sibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/rujibolumiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/69414988986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/35926267824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theoakshealthcare.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikuvefuredelolakugevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/59463865928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1630997761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/nutadanevamoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/zobivikalopojogepemopezow.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_off000109cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CD 17864 bytes
SHA-256: d85a342269a280c221c9ba513781d662bd4230ec996d246f81a18f1c39d0f6ad
font_01_sfnt_off00013885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13885 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001509c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1509C 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 1b2d4534952063735df1a7d9c9c0e5ab7dc87a91381ee980ecb5b8418a5c13b7