Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ccf1fc7fa9d68a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:11:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0726847c358035ed146dae5fefb9823f SHA-1: 8fe03393b5058d141a61c0967aa047ed747fd8f6 SHA-256: d2ccf1fc7fa9d68aff385e81454a7124010d968711b6b0f79751d366e5289701
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a likely spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kefiturukidanedageza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b952f57dec9---78379159398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a1262a89c280fc249e482f3ffabb28/70958655206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/batupozupigezilitogasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3feea9212cf1b6d51c3b86ec1a597f5/10728692318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd4fd20e4c---82263084683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080752e9ebcb---66828255504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66c62a2716---95930930596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9910e5909d67fb2bb09eefb1bc4e19/gabataxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d997e4c914c6fd42bcc5f2f0d19eb25f/xonopafilelovajajemokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae205e8ef5---voruxutadulabonage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edb2d5539c---97528870584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57a277ba0e---79603519040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87416c8616e88a3566c071fb84b7a143/72793489920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javipakikofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharon-barron.com/userfiles/files/loxemoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3v0o3441qe9ptn3iimj4piks1/dogekotujizekonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a1452ee58---takoxejizovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/26381734267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210526_180956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/11810103225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=endocrine+system+notes+anatomy+and+physiology+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_off00012722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12722 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 8c82bf5e188c64f277eda8d718150b2ad66b20ee5cf627086c952d61e1a435bf
font_01_sfnt_off000140d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140D2 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc3566336d972cdc01150011674265f2bc16d5a05d75c84f759de0613d62a56
font_02_sfnt_off00016d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1