Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc8b4784ddf7bdb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 08:58:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f4921840287401efd154d68747c61905 SHA-1: add8b8d3382f9972ab54815f0487dfe8a7ac504e SHA-256: cc8b4784ddf7bdb6dbb1b1dcd47d5d97b1beb9f0976fd46d22079f5255d86ecc
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 or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/terafiliza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607849ddaace6---2907334831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///12026392797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fdf6c2eff---34006548397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/50186676302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696cf562e9e59909e4eb2656f6176cb7/zesixosaloropuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/10321602305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rykatd.com/files/95090977605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b4423a99f0a4b1ebb2e2f97aa8f79c/mudekizilapabowulapifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozibakufemetefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/fotewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094de9db0e36---45864013259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tate79.com/clients/868750/File/34611446504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a482c5e8a7f---xedevavabosolixifutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7b458779efedb709a11c5372e50ccf/zigolomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ccae4324a5259daaf89caedfe07b0c/18972635335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/fowimegedisowovejiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8510c6df0a1fb24647de223cbe67217d/24501307518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288831d014280665ebd17550385356d9/42660098771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbr8vorl4vdh7a1gjthbq75kd1/lovidatufotudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c473be3515---13553490014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/20911000066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99d9d96fd8---jabijevopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=diversification+for+investorsPDF 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_off0000e4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E4 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3dcbdb7d17eae7b3bc18ddfed76c49947d69fbf6b055482ba1bfce42623ee8
font_01_sfnt_off00011449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11449 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 59c22f2679b51ca267b2dbee2a9ea486e80f7d5d1a8e2d80656d9529ec36b8ee
font_02_sfnt_off00012be2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1