Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cda5c597275b9d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 009151ae475b5e1bfd6f871cc0dbd32c SHA-1: 914d0e67bc99b561ac2a638e5857f9c76e3cbbf7 SHA-256: 6cda5c597275b9d9f5182bf164ad3c5ca989cddacbdb13ff1b73cc5ac270f3ea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. This indicates a likely phishing or spam campaign, where the document serves as a lure to direct users to malicious content or further exploitation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=depreciation+expense+for+a+period+is+the PDF link annotation
    • http://findplusltd.com/file/rupewilonujisaxanasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rama-sp.com/rama/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73067060004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardnersunited.com/clients/e/eb/eb3320446930dd457027df34457c622b/File/jedugojutemimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/43327859120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/tuzifevajirisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/99650935600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/durajoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55701109533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://docando.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasigeparakizituseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61bead282d21cd4981566812f9932c2c/wojaxosarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/rubejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/xowisomelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/97658114141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65cf5264d3---dobajipewapeside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/buburaxugowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080db247f3e8---bolesibufibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/135671503fc2eea246ab28118cc0a153/teloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/35320205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiken-rc.com/upload/files/36020194132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunuwasubevoselutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/jumasusulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27352357741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e339d4d1c98ce6870d10edf9da08d70f/mikakopomazadusidilanuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9da8651c97---kenokakokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tktravel.shop/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_EDE3BB3A6F25102A.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_off0000c94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94A 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 7010087e216bb62dc01da12f9bd9a8b28de7181d63b06ba18ee7bd119491afdf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE211 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA23 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 14b00caaec445fc5fe463573fdb10060481abb129c576bcb0753cdb58d331480