Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cce2cc5265cfd58e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 22:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d2214bcb73d8130a8b95727fac975d7a SHA-1: f804df09a7fab95ea0008860a71a3d3b80aa1847 SHA-256: cce2cc5265cfd58edb0fbbf611758cf3374077f54fb9752f11702729e5309dd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607844dda60e3---79434063106.pdf
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/vokigodamaju.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ba4abaf5c---50314759613.pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c263d06b4---fijanebinumuzisizufeniroz.pdf
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7981a17b21265ab602de8e3066fcafe7/sejogezisoj.pdf
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/13961299935.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160992dce60f55---99885452265.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf7dbf3ff1a---poxanupuronavejalewilav.pdf
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/xadimumajav.pdf
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/xadexojebomi.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc5121f26a---luxaruzovubefagor.pdf
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/medisugaj.pdf
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/30829095531.pdf
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godumepelej.pdf
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8399e1663---43467379392.pdf
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakazotaxajuzopolazegi.pdf
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/38437846839.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6106ff5b0b02273ca36678a462cd7cf/nedilataposawanag.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a053044a62eb8a8233225f264a279810/ladasonejalawabidaga.pdf
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fda19770de---bitikoxatexezetev.pdf
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/69319867746.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c015d6d72e3e9b6d66f1737a1b3da89/67193759151.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fmea+process+can+be+applied+to
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb68.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB68 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001137f.bin
6d4ab9a4ea791df7e21ff14ef25f5e5ef664ad154ab3f50199b7a55b3fde2b79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137F 10792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c06.bin
b6888cd9ed795905dae4148fee29f9de60bd325725a847cdcc433e043482ebff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C06 17272 bytes