Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc7bcc4efebdfa58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-08-26 03:08:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 47131d7eb4086f15852ac895bb08c0be SHA-1: ba9cbedf96fbbc0c1805447a09c05bc5f90ffd2e SHA-256: cc7bcc4efebdfa582ae14ec38fc3f98de3fbb09510b45c7248a38f1da45d6f7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=infographic+ideas+powerpoint PDF link annotation
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/54624854279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/58297149381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/85204698027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ku2vp1h317duf74o64r3lg3mc/63748393200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/48938540164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolazerozaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m2kbapupa5qbuevv92do1d710/14704888845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815986a26db---46693519010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/16811891446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/58480783993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d97c49b7e---rapuwuduwajagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/supasanojuxezujolabifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/saxojofefuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26795915080865f010121e9cce883396/xupuzafejokinilapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608430ee40da8---ponuxitisamebibawabameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e21f2b5a3---nevezazi.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_off0000d09e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD09E 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 3b948d7053cf8fb7ec7371dc5350d34156b045a7f93cc423024a805f1b51decd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A4 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 7db3db8cf358bcc8d1c4b9ddcab9e60b3fa9a4d2f1b09b1406a56312fdaf81b2
font_02_sfnt_off0001143a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1