Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cdd1a8f64f0ea9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 75d3ffeb6149ed367ca27af54034d871 SHA-1: c723010f0cdc208211a37d2f16da1836e403dc29 SHA-256: 2cdd1a8f64f0ea9f436ab16df99c425d9792326b0b336fb7a18aa3b259368597
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0e26e7468ba8c6f1328547ff9b8e199/70066525814.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/wifeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/files/sajixusebofomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/98883820872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakobivovidudaboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuilchem.com/userData/board/file/tevefusinuzugorevavepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/jomorukubufenizusizipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3e1a19219---worazakemuxajilojamura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b508f488ae---mifibinezoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/45822532239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/21179084984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/73470412866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drumlockingclamp.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/33957890905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/86916789967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/kisidunavesagelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/43117577603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384257bad3f---46949995835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/47165776013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monosebipipopusogaxizofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgoodluckcrane.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/67869269764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/10788882663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/gudejelovuzonufarudavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=heir+of+fire+book+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_off00013f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15765 19064 bytes
SHA-256: 7a499894253893e836a3dbce9756050eadcf40eb96518e90f4dcaf31ac42ad11
font_02_sfnt_off000188f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188F0 10136 bytes
SHA-256: bf31931c4658f5aa0064111052454a30aa1e31a8ceda4dec6f1b9f32ccfaf7a8