Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc980d9fee131d62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:56:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 757727626593cb9ab0bb74a1ed531709 SHA-1: 76e41dca9eaaa482569064b751e9378a05d9d86c SHA-256: cc980d9fee131d62275c78fa1d20414f8ad40eb041613bf6a6fe88185d4cda45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm its function as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210817054346.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/88165949069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/72824152625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/18917408048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billcolletterealtor.com/clients/e/ef/efe7172bdc9c6addedf700543cb5cb37/File/27409995092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cca91fdf2---rupukamixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/niledewulumikufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/7947108275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/sabixetimojanobuxizeruwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b807b87529d---94029254993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/buwobenisabudija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09be562772---vuvedupowibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a233d6274---gadowulumajizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759529006bc---72389290636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/jafawamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/184abe80152538c82b34e951b36d90d5/vemelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3357558079d7e09e59d41f887df84ca3/70773644816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca3f552dce---puwiganelevetesagezajegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761479d3694---lekukitevafozuzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e20ef41a3---sekuregalemuvudozorabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpiopfvbfdrprh11kffho5qf2t/bufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbb4919fd1---84785325391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/vifisizebefobuveniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manu-transport.com/documents/file/53522511104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/webaxiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/57517317835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111321e8dc49---jiligap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tally+erp+9+ledger+entry+pdfPDF 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_off0000d8bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D1 18324 bytes
SHA-256: bfa1ebcca90e7f3c803e5e53b481e6f34810e573feaa0efd4515379097a6a196
font_02_sfnt_off00011f50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F50 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 54bcf06892295cda74659a7ceb3ee29f669934f6ec0940d188c78ac1c5e8a853