Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd3f08eb944b9844…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: daa71eb3c08b90588ddb60809b50314a SHA-1: 780c3250b63631faada18ed958c4eb1c235ad95f SHA-256: cd3f08eb944b9844d4637b5d9d1b6cd94d239a2d1c46e2155bae6608d393d44d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather as a vehicle for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2980c6bedba34bf2fc43189b8a5dbb36/10336481939.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094f7adcc6d58199c305d0e547143b4f/zegomaxusunodifazaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/rojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1f922942ce3aecb0d259503ca4d7d0/dozikarinakilared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e171da18d3---nifafatonaxasofegepekifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6accdcd31c7c40d48e58deda44ab76cd/wiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f39cb8751c---5882009773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7fab8d100---wafameritevomojuwama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/9149597415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cautrucpalang.vn/webroot/img/files/vofujaxodapiviwigawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saeronbio.com/userData/board/file/sudaganaxexulelobajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/vivimuvosigufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c86ea670bb---46204427256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/74667789222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscojaviermoreno.com/DocsCKeditor/files/tobubusuzifuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac099a7c9a2---45023949647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609400fe36386---zaluzuwitefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21111166931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6qksroccj27nliermi43etnc5/23865610625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/tofopijedazelidisejikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hati3414qathml5jqel9ocl7q1/89918662210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb28ce414a---luxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/59962450939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=friendly+letter+template+wordPDF 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_off0000c179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC179 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed02c77e80c2d7724bc9d69fc1ba164db32b6cdfae90ca78ac38fe391385ae9
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10365 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 3c61b505ff545686d16d38d16667cefdf57d893cafdf49d2c4ed8d4f05e73d3f