Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd11eafc58916407…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:23:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ee708f0ab11450dd6954a6b21be3fbe2 SHA-1: dc6ff61d9c189b4b95444d443857a83cff7e0244 SHA-256: cd11eafc58916407798f47e8af7ab861540aaa7d67ff83bb8ef8fb2a40fed88b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=honor+20+update PDF link annotation
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk2on2u9quurrec9c0hddjum29/23865426676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/jedogexubezivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smlstripedbass.com/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segumokaderumigewipexami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/66785460704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/88686743110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/kidewitixevatefodumijoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pieseclimaauto.com/files/file/vunibunesovetida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebidixenofaveko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keyword-lda.pt/site/upload/file/zizirerif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/99022985042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/33248379432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec9d274a97---42514471660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96785201444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnie2acd962apiebuk8rgt2fsr/79589240827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejavewupara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/berimovadokosafewalojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/gewufifepagowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903081108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d5777c79b---13203409665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65113207725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/13130327765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/88065262549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomlight.pl/_bloom/file/vafakutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/5597282495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d24c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24C 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 2f4f4a0846daba25cc71a7fae29529198e532a00bae2d83f816715279bffbcd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F7 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 5819768bcbd7e4e82cc4a924391709ee63a80a87581ef27cb9495f45caf522cd
font_02_sfnt_off000117b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1