Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc9be9168b60579a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-10-02 14:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ac3f751994302ab13c2cfb1f282b3f00 SHA-1: bc1a7554368c65a3bd72690f0a4d40ac2a9314f5 SHA-256: cc9be9168b60579a0a3612d1b7fc55d87ddd56b3c82992c7bacd1e36e954e01e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shell+shock+live+2+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/gubenozatukezizameviba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/61587409156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.com/userfiles/file/19332889598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/59390319912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/63044169187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77070655813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/1630466511CdEt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkpstroitel.ru/upload/files/8667143602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e127m4ludqulq9n298ir5jh2ic/foreponobinadifuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disonde.com/filespath/files/20210908044809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t-groupvnxkld.com/uploads/news_file/pevugozukizilemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14068092359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8fa0e0cc1---45040315277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giahung.tincorner.com/uploads/files/boxulerajakesekozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46702139436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/10129509762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/45374658995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigmabhp.pl/userfiles/file/movoxanidesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go1b2tbg8fk8i30ggh9blmeft8/91227726926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8892287213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/25996270992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.somdattabasu.com/fckimages/file/xawegozexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/fibonagexamijisemirasulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/zewezatalavowemakuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/95528833118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uteambio.com/upload/files/43166255158.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_off0000b45c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45C 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 610a702c69051e9d82bdca19fddadcfbbd27cfaac9e63cba1622974f479003c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDF 16236 bytes
SHA-256: bafaa4c266bacb89395e39245dc74256e59ccb6881ca09e8b79d0c289abb8a35
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1