Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccbfb1206e311932…

MALICIOUS

PDF

153.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:33:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4d7e69c7e7aa54d381418bf9f9935a9a SHA-1: 30d871a75ecd9839cebf04aff39734a6989918da SHA-256: ccbfb1206e311932ee618d1465f53e002c4062278d719fb0788652eaa17494b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload, likely delivered via spearphishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a malicious intent to lure users to compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=and+i+thought+about+you
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e51fe63fef---fagilunure.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/rorolozokolazuzipal.pdf
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/kikawu.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa651f8c3e3---kopilenojakujiga.pdf
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812a7890d6472ad788e460eb54d7e2a7/57804844299.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38850105e0e816cd96e1868241231cf1/tajebamezakebu.pdf
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/verujopiromij.pdf
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de0823d0f68fb496065537038cabb48d/37660569460.pdf
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/77235589802.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4eidsrt8569gtbvrflvf19tl3/nedafe.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0d007bfff---nebabemaf.pdf
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978943a4d485ec7a33b5e67952c0962c/sukazebewojod.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20b2d3aa74---67116923589.pdf
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/33254633106.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f20e7baec9---64189339038.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96091b2b8807d3feb9b00e5f1ff570ee/76852743752.pdf
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/sorem.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021050122115451.pdf
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/3320650702.pdf
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akm39khh0ljbn4ju2bcaneqbf3/womiguwujuzepas.pdf
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072135865af6---27467419808.pdf
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210521213054.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdaf.bin
6c520da3db3fe8bb8850281a188f4ef1d7bd8254a96045cdcc689e1f36c426ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAF 101868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001f930.bin
cce639e750d0c9489a828dd5f34cca6e7920044c210980d338ad7b7103c2221c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F930 10416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0002107b.bin
a6a76c68f0dda15b3ee39f9bc99de6b770b141c9954d8784194ad8ce31b87fc3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2107B 16984 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00023cfb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23CFB 16792 bytes