Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd0cc670894fb7da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-08-03 00:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f1a99d5a009f247252384236aa718836 SHA-1: 99061506ab496ea4be16f263fa60bace4cd27537 SHA-256: cd0cc670894fb7da4427614a5774787b26c072d036c1276fae53ad2f36d151ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, a common technique for distributing phishing or malware. The embedded URLs point to various subdomains and paths within these compromised sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccu5ae7a8vtr5cfkhokhcnfmh0/junatajasusarodade.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvs0vavb9efskout7m9odumtu2/darevekonoxelekagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abda9e8fc8befe0def14bfc136687ba9/mefipanexosaduvijonaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd9b6c1efec---84560210425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1320b7d49---zewefefutoxupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/77768305024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/xixifewajebaxuselemupefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021072318214344903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticaproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95691605812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a0da1163edb3ea417ce77e9eaed424/40110476378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocjg2i51glsrcb8jmv3pc1ujkb/lepafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/at60jbb03mnkrl0h464nelg9a7/81517669658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc57c835e38---porixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0386beefe3d3e15793b86c68c313ac6b/97638877242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/midirezipujebesiruxagexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/64549706802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5168387326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents//files/91742149749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/58906091154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ceacabe852d54fe1cec20298ddbacdc/77393537808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/85138816483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/levebovinesuvefufamese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/58918270463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=search+source+code+in+cPDF 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_off0001198d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198D 10500 bytes
SHA-256: ebc2a396eb07892ad894b8d5d81cd1b49253187e5ca4b7e29107aa9e836450b6
font_01_sfnt_off0001314f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1314F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14961 18116 bytes
SHA-256: acad17a1942a42f3f297aa3e017daf46b89b9455d1cff02d638f00212355f757