Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccd71f07b7798a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-08 22:06:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c2f389bdb9946de6f7b6c425e1efcc00 SHA-1: 5f9c995ae3d9ce1118bcf650652905ddb0a79447 SHA-256: ccd71f07b7798a50e5ee4c7d754f0b07bcbe1c188added81df67abbd57f2760b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to compromised websites or phishing pages. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious links within a large number of disposable or compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prop+hunt+minecraft+server+ip PDF link annotation
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/gakaleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609431aa0e813---xomipejizefetofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/69132840748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a6fd6c979---42431624483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b424edc538595b20215ed1552bc83c36/rumeromefivegetexeruban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/bemibuvetudovavunifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/nakoriduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/45174007847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_865D6B5FF1C7D732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/izujufaxedasajoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e9aa34d7c---mesanozupobebezunamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/bujobepivawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/xiliwepizulewewuraral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ebfabe170be4ba7e4e9105d4b44da9/30828623855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6ff57c850---mumisusijujewafebuwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70C 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 0f25f1647a01490ea9ef6eb2bb078dc34b9a40850106c9d3763d29217ffdab91
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E7 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb5b2a6e0f0be0d39164498106cdc281a3911b7ad1c2a4ab536684b2e04fb82