Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc8ed512aa679aa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:12:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9c50386fab0c1b6d63621f41e45bb8ab SHA-1: 6019634fb9959463b95b89d161adf7538db8b936 SHA-256: cc8ed512aa679aa5b0525c7fa886fe6ed6793289c235c5f5c6961cd92efaf5f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is likely part of a phishing campaign or a distribution vector for further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lstm+for+anomaly+detection+in+time+series PDF link annotation
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/japomiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbc77503ff1---siwupubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59767e20ffe2635684c62e2e1a5b947b/zagupitudarezowapupenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-06-12/images/files/gibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/31157021824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqeaou98mkkqqkte3p0l60i3bm/kuxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecormier-menuiserie.com/www/upload/files/18174670480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3d162a6b6---74781952017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/folorovedoxovoranunakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad46c42d3772c4f5a75d80f15df92da1/dexisudojutadamufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/diruwuxapafetigifowovomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3dd68b095---82608320251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3867d17e7fe25cf9dd502ad334b6359c/92106597009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8s5ikabo3c2nvdedb0j2idpso/45185397945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th1jeodjj5ickqctorvijfpeqn/20694022886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210622/file/16243522824985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/xaxudigunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coatielectronica.com/files/68368216182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25101cc5da722ac070164d51bc97c99e/bategobinutesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daec05f447---47474790938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11ee80b8a1---72149968747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e427a363fdc2b4864a0ac428ef44bd/momil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a9d962ef1---50881570836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e076791a1b58821d779d714c8e3ee5/65978949068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ade90fb68---zelogare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/227bd1ae817543f07a9ede484d6af3e3/23303265826.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_off0000d596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD596 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 839c78b5498d266bd974ad972719e1f04c16f9b79d4136de6158b80da5d45e9b
font_01_sfnt_off00010453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10453 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6A 10708 bytes
SHA-256: d9518af4190539aa27423608ef3b0e22e1b916a90e1bbc3775701443e74593bd