Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc7fd45ab6185164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:06:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 34d0962c73d42bc7db0427e806bee584 SHA-1: 3ad63ff1db388175f93a489b7582c5705f3c3f91 SHA-256: cc7fd45ab6185164137ddbc26d890d4687825f716e0dfd7b6b8444a000c3a2ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites. Several of these sites are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+letters+in+russian PDF link annotation
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fbc9a21ca76a2b5935effbf108a0995/wuvexiduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/82745487131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/67483544665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966eefa3bc3---97301347987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/30903560626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/tekixamabusamizomiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/75221820189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cik2qgfqsuplus6dsge5875ng5/4841862061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marty-triple-m.ch/inhalt/files/jidotejivobosijusosenam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/8454460805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangphongcanh.com/uploads/files/muzijubijuvowetazifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptobasics.biz/uploads/files/9546088997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/88908120766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secondhandgraphics.com/usrfiles/file/49618062697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb3713cc7387a61554586f431a0fbdf4/nuxagaxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607204ec60118---34016331953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/86777497523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f738db5bbd800578bf8744e9520acd/55096845139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fd3440ba4---kavemefugusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/38651745335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210705060342_jadem8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scapetime.net/images/website/user/files/59813711024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/40367105661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f27b2f2643---10232256629.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_off0000d071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD071 21792 bytes
SHA-256: 019e1dacb97799ebb916e2e451b7faf1ec2ee88d4d3569d3995730c41e01ceb1
font_01_sfnt_off0001097a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097A 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 54c2d9a4d18fae207b5f2a5bed2dedb1abbd1fb5bccc6781b105f8a2dab0a3cc
font_02_sfnt_off000120c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1