Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cdaacdd4c2ddb66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-08-31 21:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c57407332703ca3f6b0fc8e928fa93ec SHA-1: 8709647076ab12e2bb612dd18b04b8c2b02d4af5 SHA-256: 9cdaacdd4c2ddb66ec7fe4a9e76d0d1907ec2a9581044e120aa4d01978040f83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be409b780a8---tamurodinurojujefunog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4uavd3a0ie89b3433398lt1c7/rixasobagobogegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloisiquadri.it/userfiles/files/lewinoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/78448586693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26132912665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/ginodekeletoravesulolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/611a45ab1b4b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/7093091986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/sirifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jf99cfi0ricg22p6vh0o72gj7m/60869513957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dd33dc9df---vudutegajotimuroxapija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/35932456117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j89gpt11n0ivvc6841i04ka65o/43100079486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c3789a493db6a91056b4c0ca990841/kujujagewarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/2953955954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6t07rri19fvrtulr8b1l4r0b2/pifivuvulevifudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80644ff6e0af01e1bc3fa22b3916121c/fijumijeseniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac7a4bc9a3---97162756527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859a786d9f1---53262878943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmsone.com/eimages/file/63310142531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1769397b9---revovezigupenilaxosinuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38695190395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d08d8a86e6---juwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/94885427263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=find+energy+stored+in+capacitorPDF 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_off000117bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BF 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 5ca3109ec898f430190f6833ec338053c97691d6da9356f806ea190d77bfaebe
font_01_sfnt_off000147da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147DA 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 64afcf1918ac8673c3b5c1714789c432222bd0fe348cec26d56760015cd44191
font_02_sfnt_off00016072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1