Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cadd11aab8d517f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 011060322fae8d92ae81be599234e235 SHA-1: e8e3aac13265213dfce3f1f8fedb58987a8e1a17 SHA-256: cadd11aab8d517f97ebc2996c273360071ca2d3bbd848a5c0c0f8cc78cb82a25
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 CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/24759822510.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57828120270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cabae2a370d8ad156515953816761b7/47997804070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/4726045422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/62220290753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4320c7976---95720853245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021043005190273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/22054023141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/lunufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/9363290301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f876e5dec75bc1d088b393599e8ca9e3/nazenujesomubixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafuwivademiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/16574673531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43252e8cd2---wejezazajibirivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/dabatujaxajizaripubajovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/lulezugazogenofakatiruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/83431737419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refinerlink.com/userfiles/file/niwebebuniroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/41448976777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9cc55ebaf---8264851579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/litixunuzobinadozafeditix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725ffc8ff9d---7663073380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///zabedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f6e1bc485---sunukonakanibapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0efa95663179726b021f4a14417db3a4/boxusatesake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///75617063888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+nutrition+13th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000d580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD580 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED92 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 4f15020bc2c3a1ea0b9fdab6865673414e4974640e328dea57bc150917de5e9d
font_02_sfnt_off00011d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D02 11060 bytes
SHA-256: deb0f46fd343dab17ac71132654fe31c9467428fc8e40957e085d094da64b249