Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccaa5381e149d6d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 54c320f3d98aaf1e2fd001bba4105a52 SHA-1: d8f886c25fb738c59da312afb1e25c2394e0e6f5 SHA-256: ccaa5381e149d6d06e1be8b8475cb6a9503295ad487ae869798cbc4ce087b4a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/54900538903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e9141199d---45985977885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pleasanthillpchurch.com/clients/5/55/55aa087cacc886b2254ddcc242c0699b/File/97301611467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realschoolspirit.net/scauserfiles/files/39851834322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510044408666353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3cb0fb5626---remokivulomekonexapilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8798e8c2b7---86333987130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q09m2ce7nc1uuifh9s7rscag7q/wigoxufeviruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd84dd1322---14269172223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/52545006696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/salupekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7f9f3eae54e59687f47d25746c3e99/kadaselila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52e4a4840c---47201232132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca86d4e979---9921057256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/tozuletum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03600ad20d35c5a193d9f370d47f1d3e/56052689715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/zugesakafodunonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838ce4e7b01---54918424902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/22456283639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i78qjo2ifp7192h2bqgdqla90a/81207081875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/butesaxipifikuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/92159801597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f0d0cae52d3315023aa9d76cf28c01/95974055394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bacc0eb2047642e9a4bb061079e499d/67483371992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6cdeb6fb7d---vuxojavegilikubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+love+baby+dont+hurt+me+dont+hurt+me+no+morePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11862 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13079 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 1894c1eba43bfa095c7ae07e58dbd6919ff5f9f1f29d84449b325518f6d8667c
font_02_sfnt_off0001499e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1499E 17880 bytes
SHA-256: bbf05ecbbc8ffd00de8b49713234e39d60a569f303c1eeec3b7d4f3c2897cd54
font_03_sfnt_off0001782c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1782C 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 74ea40c6abafff908ba0a862ebf25ee1d47d31f530ca964bdc695191fb21b084