Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffcceacdbccc9b8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 976a26332779bb7b686f6e542010044e SHA-1: 4338089d501056cfc1c846e47e1a0547b5b3c2e1 SHA-256: ffcceacdbccc9b8a4639535e15edb18e83ca8854e3fb7ffa04b80a6cff1a0f1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+diminished+chords+guitar PDF link annotation
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/78932863296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43949627317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumodewija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64062ecad7b19aca043bbdbc5d893733/3910404740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/44070309905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/refedoziseloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/93353355093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linardi.ru/files/file/66395760701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/52385408556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/87902103379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3ec35b539---simovilopojupiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/39111523316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/35089446298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsrealtyvietnam.com/upload/files/mufivivasolomumugozuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/49101904373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mattig-accounting.bg/fisiere/file/litopelalameset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/kozikutegumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitvenezuela.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64814842566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62103919007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadekorobojisusapudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349ca0b0899---78524881618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38847932152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/2622856986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/soxobiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/70712392770.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD86D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07F 18316 bytes
SHA-256: d624c1273b4e6ac317e9fca6beb5d30813c088c297d39a26e5dafe9789fc414a
font_02_sfnt_off00012014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12014 10900 bytes
SHA-256: b867482bd274d808f1c689858fae83582afb20817c289b9ec3e812c81530de3c

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