Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd41c56777793097…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:07:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2225e33d3b3c20aadda22ea4369432d4 SHA-1: a7a643261e251a2735f2662da0b01ba2c6c866f4 SHA-256: cd41c5677779309700250ee4e0b9013402ceb17963d45cf5ef2e68388074f6ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that likely lead to malicious websites or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applied+molecular+genetics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/gopimonitalujatelawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/45521325024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/somodomopigawuwopawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767f9c3acb5---38543877514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/84543063456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0b610d427ae017607785d865a1a59f/potevoxojiwufutoxajoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac099587afc---kipejekuvadurumezawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/karugebabubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7e7d1b66050e8fa0945a1fe74c57993/gasulatimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/57583972342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c020e220---56677037465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102eae9ed693---kizidanijubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279defc8e2ebd2c8d7b5edfdce28de0e/duliruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvj5lhtgsdf340i36saa9v8nt7/60068726875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/melofisataguferovirakuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/13827509056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/284a9be49e9caa632c6e25de6dfa6a8c/77242172052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075791158fb7---43479715592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa76e3db3f223889008b739db4e1a6b/90527195614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/dusefapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee8d21f605c5cb2bb15390fb51d9dbc/80330673859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v86nb2k5d9aucgp9psqij2lr3e/kuvotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123a2314e34d---10798865020.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_off0000d786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD786 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 3d47f5382c887b61cca3d4e7d86a5bb72bd66c6f78912a6fe8b04a46aa147091
font_01_sfnt_off0001040a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C21 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 6cde031b3b4103ad7eaff38a8ace4e584baa3efbd256982c8ebf87053e932b65