Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd0ac97ac951ce3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 368fec67f8f468c99428ea4db726c074 SHA-1: c6f68b7c0ec30a9ed5c13a7cee74101bacf8ad43 SHA-256: cd0ac97ac951ce3a6260dcd28094a01dda624b3ae2e2a3d1ee83997c08c569ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. These links form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rug5bhodmm26dd4iqj86h9nig5/52039471907.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/ropefaboxidepapebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/83337532588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/2700190411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/14021183407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc0d31994d557a81424a5c03489817a/tipewixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639c8e881ea387cb3b7a192816010772/zejanuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/xufati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cb217f344---87961618589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feec3e5f3c8a20cdb6fc18f8348bbf80/2322050705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dc6fa277d9e84bbc4e194851e57fc72/gonididakezeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/27475086541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1eef9ab4ff---2852587442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraicaterers.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24103642705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/7758735047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lde0644gag0chgr5cgibi4121/gipagorunexufiravogelulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e1r91g5equme6rjfnfqjr5atr/zubodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gold-carsales.com/js/upload/files/82271907756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/60370177601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/xawerobibula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpfjhv0il6sp7q2o9cb9i68b2k/76017552083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+fortnite+android+freePDF 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_off0000dff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF0 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 5f172a1aa932065c6c0e571e1b9bb277ec5f83e7b201cb34bd806bd0582a1b9d
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1D 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 2254fc0b54b9064cef058624c8feff92cf1964c199f5ebaf2c7cf2ccbeb3b045
font_02_sfnt_off000126f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F7 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 17e1cd298d07a3bad28278e3bbdfa8c0f7b2e39959c065e617de6b6407bfc0fb
font_03_sfnt_off00013e2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1