Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc804cbfdc6457fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 02:13:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 84eebccf86e07445d68f8c93d32e89f6 SHA-1: ceddfc928b4b5ed4b36ee37138935a7a2341d7b7 SHA-256: cc804cbfdc6457fdeda94e6a720e68c7898a6dd30e0d50625987dd274210bac1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to a site hosting further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft2q2mlmmj33utqu6ohr0tg7k6/39826475808.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/virizimatuzuwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/55138885295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0010023001619859979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60620c35185003d77841f20f2e58d6af/lefulewovugimiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/75192057237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dba0a490a---gegewanuvuwarutupisodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/19532008415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/34924397102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/gutekodabujebexorobuminas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/barupibifijaposanajipawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bee6c22d0---92471719463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098079c09274---rowodavavesujazikezixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/59091841306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjpoad3qfhf7pmi5a5lc07v644/29637227005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a7adf5f68dde03cad337754001f57cf/53966767996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/58068876480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f997a62583b3a55194ca3dd782e07cba/lodelimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80542a2872---61758791709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/gipujebiduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/56136593595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/sejikoxegoferum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1937ba394b---53773452391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/6357073572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882609a8053---506260605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=caucasian+chalk+circle+summary+wikipediaPDF 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_off0000e377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE377 10984 bytes
SHA-256: f0fb3cfe9122f9dbe996a226c600e5f0d97010174461dde2093c386ac28adc5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E3 18240 bytes
SHA-256: c115558a6e926f59f2f2dc4036af3d432fb45cddf5e9676cbf17c53dcb317558