Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccd9657545bf521f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-08-18 21:00:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 700210a8a5f8f95c94899a95081c1537 SHA-1: ebe37d77ff6e49772c0972080dc306d99e72e40a SHA-256: ccd9657545bf521fc38ff7b1da2b93b00205836909ac935a47044f4eddd08d6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan distribution vehicle. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The heuristic 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the use of compromised WordPress upload storage for hosting these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9900

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://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd79a2e81cc---pitogijitotuzuruxexutekig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/sigeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/firawurelokigamuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/pijozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/vibinebunugefumavejedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c99c6357b252c0c0129f06a07cf884/jegipetigekupubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/14146582251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e83a96f6c3accbf62b0a612c027427e1/muxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86938216210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12e7e1f15191f6327797acca76f42d25/73279097543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijinalufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/zanimigatomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f28c2328a90---sufebajajeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b6d946a94---15311160837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/dovosefeputomupavudoxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/78637789973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202107012004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2tt2162k8nemrpbhph2qbbek6/kawomosizumiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/pivovurojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/sawitafurezukozadolukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///68437727073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rizezetiwinilarojikuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecb20b57a9---lemekibijajemivazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a3cf0a2da---zuxifibivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristonails.com/articles_files/files/zuvasiwopekotedovejozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=lingua+latina+pensum+answer+keyPDF 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_off00011449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11449 20436 bytes
SHA-256: c11262178f3cacddbe255212a36b1ffc78741620a4bc12341a80bb43e9466869
font_01_sfnt_off00014a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A68 4324 bytes
SHA-256: c6c396be68f3f90c962a31e9499ac33feea5f84d715fdeb42b39cf5c2463eebd
font_02_sfnt_off00015a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001721a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1721A 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 314b319f988c8200da1e6ef8c8e668a1e7fbca447ac88cc40fe85fb3a66e4216