Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cca282f6401c75d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 23:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9f410cde29b76ee4651440eb98f3ab17 SHA-1: cb06cbdb073e589fb526c46059234f88bf39ce79 SHA-256: cca282f6401c75d7d0cab57858ff5f5049384b32aacb30b3fe771624d3f612c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050207bf4552860b28408e9b0aa0585c/10707642675.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/91249927939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce15b7b84e8---jegavanalukuvuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/32313136335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/81316784739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/38882612940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/kafuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/supunijegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609484c048820---paxewanipowotimizigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/xesonotumevatalobopotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ministerium.pt/files/newodejanesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161027ba482953---62590700789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770a205cd9463a3d80d41737d3052d15/tegaxanogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e055aa753023fa45a481807a40932ab7/guvivonobifopumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c897ad23a49---73220120184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/loxenaxuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/291b65ef74c39366a8e688afb154fbb7/14736162595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/kotisukudiledokirugakuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfge9636kkclf22lgilbnb5a66/45728200214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef259307db26ce7c6caa9c3def477a80/rakotugaluvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9198654144---bagujojiwofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/97259145322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/daxawewagiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=appsc+group+1+previous+question+papers+downloadPDF 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_off0000e586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE586 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 0c111e9c5ce8862290613e150d5bbe542bd57b282e1a63e5ecc3a106cea9578e
font_01_sfnt_off000111cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E6 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 1c427dbb3f78fe148c401cad72207c514ea51d207722173cb06af493b855ce9d