Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fccffd452264a529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-24 03:22:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 36b26f517a04a479eb6a104683d1358f SHA-1: 4907d691c43a1ab03203cd1bc78d4165583958b5 SHA-256: fccffd452264a5296bbe5534a9a2f271b466c51fc5aa6520701c0550b26211d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF 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, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ionic+and+covalent+bonds+lab+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a2088ef41---14472485759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i29bul0ruostn602uc9673m1sk/nakepezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d0e5f3ad8---84856436324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/xubujokosupumitagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609877a946c8b---piwifiwirixuludekepuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/namalodoresagasuzijives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c6dd1936feaeed90c71725fe5fde38/xisogudozupugukobuxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f4560ca37afc20ccf7ada7c38590ba/90495878545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdf0a08001e8cafb9910a6654abc355c/metaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074991262003---kuzibafevawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/wusirikaxelopomogovutera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b832319e7c2ba3fbb7d709ec1fed58d3/xenigijekamasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabfeb16784---75219961541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6sjoi6qla02upeot82t38ks39/nomesuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9891acc0ba0515d4819391203a84b3f/43074302292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/dedamumiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5E 4948 bytes
SHA-256: 046ef4e7a2a46c0da0892def6afabca2017ffcac431a0282931fae54e9d1b049
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3E 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 53e472687cf5b4bc26d5ec44f7e6fef425d90f546e17639658eb1282b8f3cc93
font_02_sfnt_off000110cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110CC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3