Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd1718dbc8b14c8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7e91dfe5a145f1109ff21bc7c9b2d1a8 SHA-1: 89fc0d3234aece17a9c34043d5e53a711371c36e SHA-256: cd1718dbc8b14c8adc2d251f32a59fd5b5d61fb99a1b830874d93caeac453cc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or conducting phishing attacks. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=annual+report+bank+mandiri+2014+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seriwikuwalanikagunubete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcnikkrqvu8anb9rs9tasgk936/sijobisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11c229c7e3---gimuvimilisofawosuzali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa661a0ce4---40403181465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4bf7fecd589038e87835afb819832b/xuxulizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8aefe6336---27744111278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161273e2d6ec87---12357125195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/23968296423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c309fabe18---27988324963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e69e930a9c20b1ff16ce41b7997fc70/38147150194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/konibirojasaboperenagoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/24290596192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefojuzodosumidurekoraros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f324f96a84b---lisugutufolivigupida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76124088490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/47904054577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t40cb118snt8uo3k268g3bnj5q/milupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/juloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752c649c22e---63300427350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/ginin.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_off0000bbb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB2 16640 bytes
SHA-256: b8c62c392550f81410e8722b7d69a211d3c489b429b65d9e79fdecdacb7109f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e67c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67C 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 1d1b0a2d584e9cb3b3ee8db052bb7fcce9f9fb38d544c89f8dd20fa0551666c9
font_02_sfnt_off0001007a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1