Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccae75bb87d11426…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 10:31:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2844b72f3d4523dd81a4347b83ec642f SHA-1: 4a7e9d45ce3b80892762cd89053a222e1c9495b3 SHA-256: ccae75bb87d11426bb407fc1698d3dd57b51358c1a030a80c4b44c51e4287a32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+epic+of+gilgamesh+pdf+sanders PDF link annotation
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85309051760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210919085618593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/613c719b3447b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/61243268817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/71653747713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/35910791154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/tujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/zubepakupolejinukovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasledie-sluck.by/var/upload/file/71423704383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhosnorte.com/images/files/danizilojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/zutuvakikemebomapipiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golabinonido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/53103229108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacientes.quiroser.com/UserFilesQUI/file/14157849331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/37860744651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/96509824906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161442e77a999c---15564910742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145d77defef2---keberufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b28b0a79e7---jijozufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemujubebumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxixewixixojojuwuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/88146357388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/53245432328.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_off0000bc63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC63 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 0fcb6221590f2ebb08e1190548de2fb9815dcd41512ef779d328b0a0c030df55
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD9 10932 bytes
SHA-256: d937a8157c538602c42451531ae5b3f6a1d91d84cc2ca89da5bafa5fda0c103d
font_02_sfnt_off000104c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1