Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cdbcd314a3322ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:33:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ea8618346dcd0f7fe8c0eab0da4b0baa SHA-1: d471d34b38a7d4feaedebcecf1be0ffa8d305e9c SHA-256: 9cdbcd314a3322ef8244bf7866f5e8834954ddf4522b723ddf8c537f4bce6bce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9842

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://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/11999614193.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/fugojuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/japafivovuvibudugagere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c6119e575---turasazisusilunaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9ul9ll3rbmk3onbanfsesrvdc/viginumoforibikoferifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/nexadufinewotagerunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609463d8ba483---10915454632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/nowadugumigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8015747cb5f3370e77e5d10c5b755002/11186528508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/53863365900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/dejevijalitewezezebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febutegeruliralomilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pckfa0aptjrskh6egs07hnd8h7/86277933785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/gugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d716f77d95f41d8431e016d1698fc77/sutejapifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c07dc224402fd4a706f0d425e6866bf/jizilixuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/43115317910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd76f0643a00c255cf996798c8552133/37517466403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gslcou1vaooqalg5sbgrg627k9/81472867899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/ginugopudige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/51131528282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/3963867058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/bovivemukepojipene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb554b48157756283b42ec3857c724dc/11810330417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//63446915099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnfmo68jf4641jdkk77lcsagn5/42121849169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=the+legend+of+zelda+a+link+to+the+past+four+swords+cheatsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001586d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1586D 3472 bytes
SHA-256: 582bab7b5bee54931a2e1eb52fcee631d7721306618cb053c95501d85d8651db
font_01_sfnt_off00016677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16677 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E89 16912 bytes
SHA-256: e821b0056d390447160e325dc223d9523bf670484a499ba8abc26ecf5dce673d
font_03_sfnt_off0001aabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AABF 11200 bytes
SHA-256: f19ef4669f510daf7e6f12834c63c0524aadbf2740d8f84a0cd53e9f85fa996c