Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc820d9a00e9f170…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e93b047f5d3aef015289eb4f3bcd2519 SHA-1: bd34fdfe47f0cc12cd414976c21798e348b3e0d2 SHA-256: cc820d9a00e9f170b91f9dcd403904a174520c029ced7d81a5f51fd86b8674fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other external URIs, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d33d881c4---49544518879.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/72844827355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/57168614016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/66794200449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/91898505385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e2a94711b---15242950785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adae080209a---55722947980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalinpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migixofojudevasimavapopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogabozefakotevulexobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609630225c204---nimafiwaxibivenipikurim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/nikukexofapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044cfc1ded8ef9cc555bc32ae03ab871/84984566115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnuipdhpg6ppa2mcbba29l3534/womuxafipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/85469292397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/91652280228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad99688effa9ea1c37d9b7ef306d996/kupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/buronotojokonajixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083be4d14da7---91123188665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6a9ab0c62e76e223f1cac77a4db8fa/mikavolerabivuladik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/64451617455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/55714057723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-ber.com/UploadFiles/file/20210624001531820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210526214920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/mufevezifuxoguxugaxije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=fo4+polymer+labs+samplesPDF 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_off0000e7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D3 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 31e5ee7f4a805289145fc3cd688c0856bf99596cee9b13ea33ba37a0f73fa334
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4F 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 390d958287b77fa317ce337f785e3d97f0c36d1263fe002017f8ccc0fdc1069b
font_02_sfnt_off00012d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1