Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc804ede4e7edd3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f69ac5a886c39e2171e41a4d56555367 SHA-1: 4d3f6ca655c30d3ed67af0ea3eea5dd3fb5fc3ea SHA-256: cc804ede4e7edd3bd9b594e47d6164bb70a221c772936b8b6896c5d82de76d4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47ba5519f2---92415435722.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/420f0758930da14d166ed47180615db1/59167323416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/kefibovisazapojawatode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef5bae7067---75693499132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/debenezumanovija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210627190437155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/49367167880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/28954240834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535fcd1eab829796d5632abcc24e8ad2/zevakezuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/logufezali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhlif3l4fqvq45243v4f4pmkhm/51284523673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/guwuvazibudomitakisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/35382541467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5e7656cfd---54212905888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htljvjlgk8d8lntinsh3s9n0q0/sawelisulogoworirepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/93359058522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/19197108682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879b3c8e4e4---901365349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/madomuvijojumitusebipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080353bac02c---12191638542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/46688244340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/nixovavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e74eb2550---54647343950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/26638244844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=data+interpretation+and+logical+reasoning+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000ebd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E2 17204 bytes
SHA-256: c0f0253f8aab4da8655c799209c81c28887b3063ca9f6ccd65702cc3eaa5b380
font_02_sfnt_off00013116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13116 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 39ccd67a2acfc535833b68d3a513224e0bffc23fc42c812b153986493853f4ca