Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc877a92b1ff46bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-15 07:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 39258ebedaf5d796733594861e4acded SHA-1: 921503982b923d0141c7b7b17cc3f830aaa43b23 SHA-256: cc877a92b1ff46bc725c77dc8518c4c965808a1402d0f1ceea1b06f4583ad137
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, as indicated by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, offering no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebe3f12ec267a01d38313a898e179744/65991237736.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/suretupebini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/90453365884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/30178937246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/66933055368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/xijibeberunufejevoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/xiwemijogifevesefivigefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/35743348256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/bikipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611169336148d---12912567297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/dusidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snohr30sga0e9seuata84qjut5/85462815043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media//56405256294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/3519508973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a4822722f---lifasatokugigilabiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607306131ad24---pekamejurefituwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a729100f9d4---dadunifexipimozugorexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/67500844560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/86361824988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/2477155471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=times+mais+ricos+do+mundo+2020PDF 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_off0000d622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD622 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE34 19180 bytes
SHA-256: 06c82324a663f5b4f932a2cb7b275d1ed9446b21d37f82040ffadc4653d277d5
font_02_sfnt_off00011db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB8 10692 bytes
SHA-256: bbeed8810f51a4dbffa0d89a05a0fbec9dde4ad4aa6fc9aefb9fac339100297e