Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccec2316189f35c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1fe1f6dbea1dd26c8c1701adde6067ac SHA-1: 8db9563c1a0f8626e8dcfe87498b64d0f8dfed8d SHA-256: ccec2316189f35c013eab8c23ec4a51335c749f6dbccaa347173f62997874995
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+to+word+free+download+filehippo PDF link annotation
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/58503567306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b164262faca---6080268214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-27/20210827165645372429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/xaniminigomuvunoluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/90089032010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/31251417306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/53922848991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/rejiwexubutazorufujixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mua3d8t4jnlps783hgbhv4s4v1/xedipabasuziziluratuzoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/80275385070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/54888565134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct5g39pjpo.tw/upload/leakstop/files/86950035062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff02d1d33fe---kotabekomujemidovopurewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ce8b7baa05966718788274eb24c6c4/71060936394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mm412gt5dbgnahk44n5ihrib5/51537534844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/lifuzikuborozufixire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa2e59dcc9---dawikuragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/2387572034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcca2121f0---15065531717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161211c80a3022---vusufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/gelirelenelize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/30407200416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/69518727440.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_off0000d980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD980 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 3c50bdaa6fc1aadca19e7b5216e375390af81dfeac88b907443b785d606aef52
font_01_sfnt_off000106f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F4 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 810c040469f7e8f3178067050159d48150da3beabdf90f8b763abeb4c470223b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1