Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7cc01cc0dcd38dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5b42dcab3ae80a31af294e3d275b4467 SHA-1: 53e36555d476eff1f3dddcdde503a0406d4a8be4 SHA-256: d7cc01cc0dcd38dd3039a111510daf813024df0a9062cf60b0e63e78b73324ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious destinations, potentially for phishing or malware downloads.

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.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9f3602ffc1---8748633446.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnm97qdeqomdk7arn64u2euh3n/58133291821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/65379876715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agape4u.org/userfiles/file/55365402162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91de5951bc---11109909515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/83860818789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef900cb2df---37677962617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfbe27be23---92076829350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a90f75f4a---20655197902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/28492667929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/1801345861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/56115470408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6ba582a11ecd19be03f16da3a54424/sogifagikisubaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c041d7ccf---kolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r19fcp4f2vhvsbbo2imq0lrh54/dagubitupubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pendekaremas.com/contents//files/dujepaginuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/961b4e4e7b73bbc2e97cff0208192215/lasegagodoxifaxosevisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29198101108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31306292d2---rudinepiwaturilosenosezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movivopizixose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d648c6518---15828713903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qde3hgkbchcv2kgco8455fed3/kovatefumopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugepigutipunitopuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozudodelojalalamateru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988ad0a9a5c---8460595550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=journal+of+quantitative+linguistics+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_off0000dfda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFDA 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 956e099b09e50abae7699a89706f349a4f927318b250eac1f6c194c5837d8ea6
font_01_sfnt_off00010e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12630 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 8154c59d13825503c97c71c61566c4947dd1838d2f49003affda4ea69d4225ec