Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccdc380e392da7cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-10 12:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1ba1682cbb35543cea4709ec313e276f SHA-1: 5f5a8373c71214b4392f7cdb441a6ed0a9a17faf SHA-256: ccdc380e392da7cc6286a9ed3de6402a9055ce15571c88c50c1e350abeba2e8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=les+propheties+book+english PDF link annotation
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/bolatojojuzijuxibuveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/nazux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users//file/91578796811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092edcebdb6e---86930576401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c972ee28de---88727898430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa0fd7c4bb---52813714955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/58765842581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/71423592771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fae6b4c20d944aa640af25668d75c0c/kitapoxumabijesidela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce7f220bbfa---movujunodofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/347d92d2e5558078c4d2ab7140f3971a/86069261498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1p9t2k0qi7nsdnlfafrlb7o07/nimowibelevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/82257075072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaalu.com/luutru/files/fudojadoradixiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a757a04f672---waxaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/petevoxeriwonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/50750025758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d401894a043---32449536330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flmdfr4ssh23tdqum8obju76ib/94553214577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpcadonate.com/clients/4/48/4863a0bac697dd4b44f4a1b1fb44835f/File/tolofotebirazegugifidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cf04a2c26---33261046294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740177889bf---67878103862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/77485865162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f71c49cb97---zenamumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rdctaaeje9okkcptvqrb43au4/jovepevuravovelaxo.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fbf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF8 10560 bytes
SHA-256: f5b644cd7bee1dccb8a3b82750e21bd780a0e0d989dc25cc7ffa99e0fc2fa690
font_01_sfnt_off000113be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BE 17816 bytes
SHA-256: a8d9040df87c00c9fb49469129ab845fe61158b391b25af880f832a9ed55ea55
font_02_sfnt_off0001427e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1427E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1