Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccc48375661e165e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 13:28:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 683c9edd110baa2b6d2723502cc2a669 SHA-1: eee2e0cf8b129a6b252b8f5d0f138043d1ba4c7a SHA-256: ccc48375661e165e56b03ba64f651e687a19b8b13cecdcb64b2b1765a726ee3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/fedamupumipiwuzataxiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4caf698c82---17703879477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ef30535b9---48027913052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa263eef87---buzegodigonoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22fd9e9c57f5d0756420310b1753c09c/savizomevune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f674be22b---44571593524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af8e8bafee34c72942b36a8ceb4243d7/50718292547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12556ec4ef---muxaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79a0e46a4d---3605866167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/11460218552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0764a2dc85ad92de0459d66b7cd3db6/2843122603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210617123732031582zo3yeliumh7n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504aa0c4ff67adf1a15329f49bc0e772/61170797021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisoreralub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5oukgat9tallpap4s7stq0lk7/rekini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/28903267174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glenbardwest1965.com/clients/0/00/000b938fadf99fc3242526d4297efebf/File/nitagopubetavuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/6487029806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae84cf3ef5---32421296146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/48190100423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/762ccb31834b18c4c4411fd93eba1001/zonobarujezabifemelawatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a108aa36f---mufijufarewixadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/xusuzupafigunijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/81103615252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608986aa85bb0---mifafuvasokokawukuroned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+giant+flying+squirrelPDF 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_off0001215a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215A 1928 bytes
SHA-256: aac39636faf46729853a9e415da9cccf18541edc8eedbe1055ad336aded89fb2
font_01_sfnt_off00012a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4E 17060 bytes
SHA-256: c8c9dcea1f5a4574a5336be503f1574c945fccfe08e8ba5227a07336b4610eeb
font_02_sfnt_off000156ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156EA 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b135d7410495a3db0a1bed0e95d0c10ca512de7f5f943957cd552fc96304bafa
font_03_sfnt_off00016f8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1