Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc8e22175add166f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b8e26699006784a6d495037cbf0e5ebc SHA-1: e2fe3d15e2c85616ed4a843d972a48577eceb738 SHA-256: cc8e22175add166fd791783a457575c1794f702fe62d208f81af2c474356efc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+transmittal+of+documents PDF link annotation
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a607f5ce529---98405138356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db8d518d8ab---43588479724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210704/file/ruzuriwugikavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb03779b19---jijiforegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/95725308841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fcbf71aaf---47030522458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18576f2e373cc3ea6bfe7c5ec5021f67/73446339673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/83840354930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92914d4cc9---nisopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a057olpmmmpvq8n6dkbp6k7s37/togodedomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e64ca2cf18e1d617e1d37006cea2665/fegevanifazabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1623628798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cbfca3ef4---38221146949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddb669c90e---17429924890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4eosqsiqc56gueudic1te1k4m/42821155052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/kifanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d89d575484f---70000662847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b29e1215a---wevugizexuzibono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/vaximafudujetamerodizizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/41412955759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df32f49652b6ed27082f4172428999fe/44652105543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba88229a638---sefisenatanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21036546336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074303c906e6---57235291155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB4 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0deeb30bb703447b641e417c612bda671e65d8a5c3d44a501dfa42c9c2cfd681
font_01_sfnt_off00010409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10409 16280 bytes
SHA-256: e191b3d0657841418195fce150dfa1dc7d2905a08e096be5afa53aa593341f16
font_02_sfnt_off00012e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1