Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc927a7ea4890478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:26:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0116267f3167f7f7692e7648f21e572e SHA-1: aafdccc934e5789862f79d7912553f737c20b637 SHA-256: cc927a7ea48904783d2d8510a7ca76de4c6caee143f0a4bb34bc8c6fc5cc3e0b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link farm on disposable hosting and a detection by ML classifier and ClamAV. The presence of a 'download button' lure and instructions for a password-protected archive strongly suggest a phishing or social engineering attack. The embedded URLs point to potentially compromised WordPress sites, further supporting a malicious download scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=j+cheater+keyboard PDF link annotation
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43144149753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/nufijowuwafotumurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrajacreation.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/rasawobejimejiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clickvay.com/upload/files/98832792688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47902cb82c8d91b364d215a1c14490ff/rinodonodifeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e919d08036---guwutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/webifukuvexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aamhupcj0g7nchar6lhs54780/luzujojewinamowodetijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416c1c73bdb---92787292670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/linabufomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazesunevorafaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/17305919944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/4742599803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/33547889389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff7305613813f1ef9e08149e9967ebb3/xaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamubitorobabukiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb873226d1eaa9828b09b1c7b53dec0c/86682686616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/95554327851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/114302258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/63847966348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/50679572848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144789d4da8e---posenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/xufukevodigepudifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miass.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/54477444775.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_off0000d2a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A3 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0332b89291278052ba7499a466b77d7b2201b6481a68ae41e35212d839c2af
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF71 10396 bytes
SHA-256: be9df75a25a397e4b8c1e1efe94668bf86294e33c9f60c0c86887bb874212950
font_02_sfnt_off00011730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11730 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1