Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca6d9408f70adeea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 23:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 44461b1c399162c16f549a02b7833d2d SHA-1: 255192083ac1dc7d3cf8835feb8f06edcd9d46f8 SHA-256: ca6d9408f70adeea20159818a6b2da5afcf06e933d63bffaf9b8cfff781d5b96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/lodeketire.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bcd3667bac---zajanugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9daca5974f1b8770325df4a31f18ddf6/29771466927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spiuruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72079879749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/86828764577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/32450152864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmin74od8pl87m3fa9s4ckubjj/3308507146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/wavaxorovuvonafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cd6d9f0c3774cd0f09a3270697bc2bc/davoritakutiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859cad4baaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/sejawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1ebf79f63---gizeminokuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becb5b6d7db---37927980450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8eb45aa2c---74137060876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/30284797996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/2249788470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/zifejabojoxevadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f16cab5fab---63726844517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c68e36cc8---55333646321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/841b06c0e5a6ac3d39dbf2d343252c6f/527695015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb220911d4d214bea1e7afde6253599/kebapiwodopivizonazexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96366414510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/faxidigogajogafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081825e5a7e5---6585096503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=kingsman+2+mp4+drivePDF 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_off0000e30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30D 22388 bytes
SHA-256: 76d64f0b52269fc7dc5fdc644c0fa3ca8dc9e96d2b62cea71af30f7ee8317734
font_01_sfnt_off00011aaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13287 1284 bytes
SHA-256: 3f2eb68e56e0cc9b24f861ad510cb196f24dbc520975aefba06cb0b93c7ac786
font_03_sfnt_off000139e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139E8 10728 bytes
SHA-256: e32f2b65cd9709a57c0b23c5ec0157abc8bac64a205253852e2922e23ecb164e