Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccf2c6d163653d6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 52ade923c8b46b4d78c91219f9b15a9d SHA-1: bfecad2445e71045f84b75fc392d7511c9004670 SHA-256: ccf2c6d163653d6a79524970d4bc17ae9b10fe681db9e3435e4532c31631b574
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious redirection or phishing scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=morning+prayer+to+start+a+day PDF link annotation
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2878c5e7b306914bf9b72c84a2787292/48084487241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895862bc05a---26541530271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmptda60l3hmb7h8318s6bk9v5/zozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/sirofekijijilatevosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c2pu53ug428102fifoq7dnhc/xamidawadabizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/jaxaruwalexelerulivideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vralumni.com/clients/7/71/71e0d721b250bdad3664bf54e70089ab/File/776940676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesemevuzedesutizaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a38e403373---81038913238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/poxaguluwidedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/puwumufigusesakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e119ea46a5ff20c6753286d0bfbd4fc/6287662228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68800268ff3f010eccecb43dbb83e456/66753503144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fae004344a---33212771430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ideml9mdtmds91i77qn7fvvd13/xopabusapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/416fc331c4043a8ee6f6abafb6dff57a/legezizobelidoberum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/wowinawubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/5622286451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ea8c1a2ea892d392bbfab0b9b84339a/danefonuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/13405975551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/27679772123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a802a3396ea---62994816246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/fezosalivowojegalize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/joxavezexutebazezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805e6b52edf---dadadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/viwupix.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_off0000f112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF112 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 85558c177d6c2ac9b0494d80cbb07113180125fccc02256e89080db0151d98db
font_01_sfnt_off00010959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10959 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5555bd8cf7095773200d1951ea0ef8a7ae92bf1d1b89df7973613d1054f499
font_02_sfnt_off000133c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1