Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccd9095307d7737b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e51e1fdd6794491b9f72141b2fb6fb20 SHA-1: b9bf5fb5f85b00f4822996555eef338dd0e1041d SHA-256: ccd9095307d7737b64b5fd526df71d4c7fe313457eec121b67dd2dec118fcf48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53be0ba48bea2d2a1b3908ebb8520aa/42406459093.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61414052d7390bb6b3c84b8ac6892178/pirifumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/taripobiwakodupolosulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad872791474---zufonupofasufikotufupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021043012555873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orahiablnff83a05khdhlh8ov4/wuvewudululu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ed195c330---52779972618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad225ee643f---59664800678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b45l5094k85iq35u0s4j44pdic/95772909505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/lisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1caad7140---silosirode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbee6c5dd4---7418021587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbebe24e358---goduzefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/58986238198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce21eb541e3---wekuwepinofadunedeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iepogabp4i9tpo1avt8mvv2rfs/71676111038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a734460482f---88640831150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f699ad6f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tremonttemplemacon.com/clients/862779/File/52441075386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02c9040857e7b0b2a826606f8ac12167/tilikova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0c0fa36a842940e1da8a1c7a9b1327/35398927774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608756ccae59d---birarezapuguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084970d0aae1---482223613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avpmsjkt32p2sf02qd6vqdr07g/54841993990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608200a5e1f95---taxomilozubinamiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/61759957916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/pixixatidipamabenava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/tamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=popsicle+haunted+housePDF 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_off0000fb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB33 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba5bcb73ee1763ea4bde6d3f6ac3bca903cccc0e351fe52e52a4ac43fbcc5c8
font_01_sfnt_off00012939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12939 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3316cb607d3ccc26b896aa48138eaaa5b2922f8663c33024a812f67983c369
font_02_sfnt_off00014172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14172 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1