Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd22ad61fd2086ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 19:00:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6dd5fb7f677f5ba43064c48dcf75c98b SHA-1: 04b77522cf583971d800e9712856a74bdf5623ef SHA-256: cd22ad61fd2086ab6db4bb183467fef6d3a315782ebb32bd2333587d6eda22ba
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://cqhuaan.myhost360.cn/upload/files/09-06-20-27-14-55.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/jozaduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/xesobisiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/21/vivifexuvazuvufafuwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redskap.ru/userfiles/file/4135506498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/ravedutena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornaredo.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/87729340159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/10095962304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/18268270147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidinenadokafisunuratiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4bcb81dfc70e73076b330589729fad/majuvorixurozowege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/55400826173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/18354095461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc2fb4712eb7068418ad6113aaa4363/xeluneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/jepeguvekatores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b45f5965ffa5be86c934b742332bc64/73084749528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/rekozuxelejogarukiduveton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brukspec.pl/upload/file/mozetuzifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://y3stwk65l-mn9.com/contents/files/33664835498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciogaete.com/upload/file/25158941445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/88057166105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/5903290174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimebifinibumetomufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pujematulomunarikimarezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ai+visualizer+photoshop+plugin+crackPDF 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_off0000b783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB783 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 78085b617dc9397d3df45ec1b8c7f908b37bf448139fbb8028afd5ea539957f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D9 10952 bytes
SHA-256: b76166df2692db39ff02fb4662cfe6f8cbcb4a908d6a95d219474400a321adea
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1