Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd28cff513159ca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:35:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 03cacd294a8d2b885a6e24d577bc9439 SHA-1: 32f0484735e2661dd0faaf4b958d00f2475010a9 SHA-256: cd28cff513159ca2eb0a6559f197fb59cebb55dd0ceecee90fd92c3a5acad272
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing lure, potentially leading to further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210708090537.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/66199345904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ccc882d723a2e7bb8873b313d447cda/simoruzerajugilupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86e8b3e87220093c4c7a3c11d39e4ad/51523752038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/romulenofivifafegitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19b7601752---47984377282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ebd246283b63d2a21f3998f12881d5/2984276146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60582d351229f4b4158db3240515400d/69522696416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/71001622715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b43273b44cd0f8c1e6fc290e679c8e00/74225422524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gubemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06aa604413---kowowidulositikobefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/19749115988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/33234090868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82673846178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiesforfamilies.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/xijuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447ac7a1e72ec3d2288e3eaddc276c74/rufasawoxinigonupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c8b99933bbf577072bf0ef4b81da5e0/8610881624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/86693855317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/77614925913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/14431800256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnold-sitter.com/CKEdit/upload/files/58103412912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3k7ln4ecftj7fj8e3qfet26ih/jamawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/ririratirolinogufabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddd3f8cc71---nuludoxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf60845db83---7306481142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=starting+bodybuilding+at+40PDF 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_off00010c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7B 17000 bytes
SHA-256: d31fd9f191a496285ebce0cf3ab3950a4c788dcdf473c1595a2c4e7454ba0191
font_01_sfnt_off000138b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000150c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150C8 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 09f50b9f60a3f4a0356a6965e0bdd6477f2a6f8058859dce101a66f43c88df97