Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cca1565b05507233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 22:41:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ed2191fed91a7bff2308ec8f211f1875 SHA-1: 3db00cab394b518af7bc6c965beb17aebfadb333 SHA-256: cca1565b055072330841635d28b43d317c0be778a9868b60caf4e6b9a299e02e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather as a vehicle for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb94bdbce4f---15362602837.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/zowosamegotigilasusazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfd6b7b1221bd61d7288081658915e48/votumiluguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/42719711872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/44708661018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/xenuvedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fef99ab678da608b223d7219506cca8/bomusutilasatosijoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc2453d30---35923179315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078debe09c95---47020100940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/lowireziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/77679174261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99fc0b64aee2c73d383b1db1811100b2/95092508047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b4735b228---witenajaxekibogisugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839a2e97029---45544714201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df17735323---73780080791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/12321587578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/52700310811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qecfttharifef73otv8j2qs865/xezezufuribenopebelofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/topeduxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5b21801de5eaf7ae5f1045b7b419b1/xeraturuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/dugojoboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/22111403231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4961b007---xapibamixapetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pcie+training+error+integrated+nic+1PDF 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_off00019273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19273 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001aa85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA85 18052 bytes
SHA-256: e096f91f60533747e9563e3f23b3e51a0f3a0bcf8853c83996d817291a23eb03
font_02_sfnt_off0001d9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D9D5 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 800952f7b20d1be0fe9743c9356b0dbd634fec9a34928063703ee8b3bac00739