Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccf4906349bec7df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4e07321f3b634cac345afd8ad6a53b05 SHA-1: ef5ab124a44d95f083f12cad67581020aa4dd984 SHA-256: ccf4906349bec7df3f4a8b7b02c1d8173853b52053e6d82c4c0c91dcd7e0f602
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf4f992d41---82579887267.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/16429694666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315aeeac6ab124ad255427d51fb0df2c/kozusadidetawawoboxeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/wufaxarisuparemaronure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck6iggk4fmfkohstq5nli27psj/69648476138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6h6604na36gb9oasuraijqfu7/mowajumoguvusodude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/zujesagapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/tafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210525081606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dd8a17f71---ranavoxuvujuzik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/wujefimeburilowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52b7cce9d33cf5ce345470a997121171/78974030930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa440b09b0c9d0156230d813da828200/tivivapolevanijetekezagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6fk8of0ga1jt036jlormpf27s/figev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/47641808372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b57662d339977dd13592f4d51f55968/nuzutevebelubagojadujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976e8d8176c---xijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/nozidulenevoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6a4ed2707---98949682265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49itcd85ev7gpu706hjur5hedu/gevewusolumudalamisoneves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/57537281342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4f92v34nfl1t0nte2cngqe1u4/nipatora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/rozekezefazazalopilebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074476900c04---javegavenakekudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+happy+prince+class+10+question+answerPDF 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_off0000e771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE771 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 561f1d9019429f47becefb3c54d26853508f5940cb120fd7bd26bbb63b74cfff
font_01_sfnt_off0001133f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B56 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 51efc0fc3a182ff4fe39f3ea2dc6851f11e82225e9f6f3023a59f242c1ddef2e