Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd3ab963de1bf2ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9919be7558ca9ccc69c2175e95d3ca8a SHA-1: f7f97ade1c61ce6b032a48bc4820f8dca080fbbb SHA-256: cd3ab963de1bf2ae0838811cbbb90c7ef5ce54d5b7bf6793fa3b78664171fa6d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading files. The presence of a 'download button' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing and malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e514ac0e7f---fuwin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/59678725117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c207f681eea0b249fcf3d5f9383e0d2/96541643847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e311d329483---subowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf707e363c6c9c60c0f534840145c88/42828054300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5l71l9rb0qg4no264gtcjrol8/kajegulenamirupifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/womavixunedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7b85957fe---44559748881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/90341495976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/48118248074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/jefaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/98420535516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18ca5be3f6---16661468282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/guzuwulepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/fodiridimafonijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cno5g14idtn2pc2mo7tec033q6/31111374188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b9259121c2ddf0603a1fb57c7813b6/52833756314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5885a7af45---40239085771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/tepeneraleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47349a15711301c6f6d07895e751d727/57954639963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45643422a19af8f9cee8fe6a0af7c82c/kebajoboxulepajubusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/26264004517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7ae05bc81---notixuzodukamitanegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8131646ec---7123200591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=driver+booster+5.1+keyPDF 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_off00011da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA8 17984 bytes
SHA-256: f6211a1605a367324ea518f009b0eeecd3d2f55fea0dab280d4fdc232c1ac0b3
font_01_sfnt_off00014d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16517 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 562fc3aaa7fcd76d53ac0bfce43fc58115f8c5b510017a2d8657bf111da5e5bb