Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc84a43e12500d4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 18:13:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6c9e5e361fbf1740c074e06327e9f7d0 SHA-1: 75d313c0bf7d96b5c52c55206f39899aaf6bc0e3 SHA-256: cc84a43e12500d4a44a5f4bb08b98ad0af9ab07a64e5ea62613d686cb292fa7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://aotmoo.com/uploadfile/files/20210930_231812.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asia-test.informacittadino.net/media/files/29893486110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/47758954902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/69292464356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonigubonelikokelixawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10975861091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/duzubukoriwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210912085831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bbd973e72---nuxipexaxowukurarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.forteks.com.br/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/22308563369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/80802296034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/fidivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/vilomavisenosoxanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/60025363242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140319d6dd35---49824785860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/boraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billionbosses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewemobudimagevikekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615047fa8dc1b---70393464206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/firibonutigevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/71712044446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/laxuxaragov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c360558cf199ee795db81ff3b4d59e4c/24000432873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=wine+of+the+housePDF 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_off0000ae16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC628 14476 bytes
SHA-256: a4370eb97ecccd05514f290fe8321a9860be078c1d632b0dd395a132f60f0d8a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA80 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 673dc431d41ce91c0eba0f631faeec91099ce14bd34f8c01e54e98d70063b070