Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cce555bdc71e56cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 10:26:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8350008d33273c4eb548d063151b3be2 SHA-1: 9842211fee8602776e76e73e2b8566ee36c67966 SHA-256: cce555bdc71e56cf5e83dfa0c42ef1ad4e087d56bbf636306963d673f03a630b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43f7289037---47038468328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/44530819502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/pesoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4j4a7l5du2d1sm6qkokrh1gj5/fidexikebote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/6240982547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210603_110108_1182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706b5d44cfb---gisojitavezigurunalesobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/90604126660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents//files/vuzozubelowufaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/tiririjolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c06b232cc20bee7cf7737bb9d92b123/kogunazilegevidogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/41462451288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/makuravaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/33994777942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/natifupiputonilidiliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dad3f7e42ec---taxazujazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f90e2ab663---nuxazalukizezotuputof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f1bae74e7---tefajamitezekifudunopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec79706649df2adb5813e33c232d1e9/40651659216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/pezudijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samilove-payitforward.com/clients/f/f9/f9b0b202ed5d2cb263a89f8a9bd08a94/File/6617778335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/76696909024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southwest66reunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6f8b7bd17d60304c359e527a2c43449/File/63601718607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607798af66643---28024843153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=differences+between+astronomer+and+astrologerPDF 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_off0000f10f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10F 17244 bytes
SHA-256: b48079f734f6a44aae059f4b326201212da9839b58d48d32263f846521dc1a77
font_01_sfnt_off00011dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135EB 11044 bytes
SHA-256: cff9607b332b94b5044cea5fff1e71d1ccd84d34b876e07a0e54c0823e05d717