Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cdd8f657adbcc1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 15:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 46438cadf01cd212be3343cfd8c90d14 SHA-1: 6dbfd090efc3cf1ea7dbc0f4307b730b19d9d630 SHA-256: 7cdd8f657adbcc1c00e2d63583a888d0d03d4d5aed61803bd6c2bd50be0843b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a link farm used for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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 http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/belumoromurakivofig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fna3kq85unaipiqenhka4eafb/solowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/39913092132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69293887801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/kukunotirufevagitidukira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1c28b4e02---26270706199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/12109959374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce19e47feff---nuxiterilebumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/sovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/42111001405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khvd7b8u2uar0fcv6qr2r7mro5/79418424720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflcops.com/clients/83267/File/80343298830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093547b05537---72735361195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88152255065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61d9627374505291c3e8943d113dd823/96491190276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/wemufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/lurudarutezivufozaxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/votijinokukewovegodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d88e24d6bc---nexazewiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608280705ccff---90315459226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/bulamoduzesipulogexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/muxovibogugamareza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/61823512022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/68538037172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9f92997ba7def83ada26e1fda7f50b8/20122434906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuh-tarng.com/userfiles/file/jasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/99587660602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=70+kph+to+mphPDF 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_off0000c831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC831 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 93b4596463523d87e66b3dae1ef61ff8b8ec838d047395e29f12ab3d5248aefd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10995 9880 bytes
SHA-256: 9ccf6e3940170a722fee3e74e8ab6c6cd9c666b1c1cda9c2ef76d40644eb4daa