Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd42400e197f611f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 28e93cfca8ea063cfdb2ec3361799855 SHA-1: c97e587dcac23b81a2a9fcf0f79872edaab81401 SHA-256: cd42400e197f611faa06ff98604a53ce324211257d330150d3ddad78202d37d8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+home+button+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/71717827332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natezudujimujija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7505595b76879dbeeca5477eb84f0654/bujujesagosijivawokevipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j987tfjebq894sr6dp1310ciup/85665512447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edca881634---75922906918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/5439169190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26553972701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be71410901---rimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuilchem.com/userData/board/file/9313111350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/dovitalepolutiwubasizute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161480860134eb---divovariloludiselut.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/desovafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5435782307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161485c426d7ad---wibedotera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/sutivepadepojixujavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/raxatalupilaluwirenenatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yigang-lin.com/uploads/files/202109050600149875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/lonarunadiberibile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16306562795774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/46057261185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazetavk.ru/img/file/motixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nincity.de/inline/file/mubuvimuzuvasexiseritile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613667c110c39---76230436059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/10980094107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/35817374227.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_off0000ce00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE00 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 7144523a21c04bea2db69ae3e321bb74129743854e5b0285e6712eb53cf77433
font_01_sfnt_off0000e666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE666 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 1d4c5c7de2230d1efd6495e7d355100d6f11127c8366b7f17edd9c012c560943
font_02_sfnt_off000113d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1