Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccc9a0c500ab9da4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 166819f6317d54a58dcf3d250dde32b9 SHA-1: 9440f5598c114ac3aa2779e3dee13fca60f894c8 SHA-256: ccc9a0c500ab9da40ee4acf1dd51749ecceac1bef90a9c45af80dfb844fecfec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous links, many with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/83551119246.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/94771797483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/sesefakebowojetibokenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/sejinaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/dasiwetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/26985136238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orcasproje.com/userfiles/file/tilipuzuxirevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingtesttips.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/1001735754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents/files/1753736301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/90107481293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/022e377ca75264232578b7628e530f69/lexamawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kccegis.com/upfiles/content/file/20210903124839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/xomenefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/rivokosokoxupisemoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2dbb0351e---34865528420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giponeroponarosuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/84436628873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336afaee0ff---53470358970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulife.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovijevelilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=erase+cell+phone+data+permanentlyPDF 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_off0000da9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B6 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 16a773915ef362e79186e0efbc385b160225021f9f42f970c5d2b69ae4b48cb5
font_02_sfnt_off00010b60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B60 18112 bytes
SHA-256: a9a5bdb5ec14154d16b39e4504e40ca0437eec588f806d5630f10cc73c381f0a