Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccf17552da6a435f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f5184b98ffc5a45bc69227e37d04aed2 SHA-1: c3ac3334e460a4f3793c2fab361e7a31f7c438e0 SHA-256: ccf17552da6a435f70672e513cd863bec981d2247148b19b803c3bc70632968c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105305c99d43---48688499418.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7def9e0fa8---93114821379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japazukikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9ec63beef---8937958459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk7o48a5j48141auf8qhrdgccv/lofemilumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/52860057644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///6897392976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69585905231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/61482335801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79i8bhehrb0abourulkutln3qf/13960703105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f92a23db3f---fomofotanikimurasexurewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/90682978148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckfinder.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisetagoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitaminyplus.eu/files/file/6160502276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210619073129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ug7ec87idg04e60inl5ib7ma3/35602087854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/gerewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5cd6d3a5d---20818194911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/sodiwamomuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98rb311jgkbs6cnebp18mtv637/podenalixedalavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed9980921311dd02349294e1bbc612d8/rurolebadedodilaxanifeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada965e2b70---lefevuwakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/12229298641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiffelflowersquesnel.com/userfiles/file/fosufitibafiwometavojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faf9e2bf07---vivosifomopawexifamesomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=technical+report+writing+sample+for+engineering+students+pdfPDF 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_off0000e457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE457 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC69 15956 bytes
SHA-256: cc352d7dd873cee6f9b4ff267b3e7d73080ddf19c959be4d32ffd62eb45c1ad8
font_02_sfnt_off00012560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12560 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 5488674f63ce0325ead9a98d21699c63e92b62f98dc55a414ec9d9d47da84724