Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd4dff854163ae5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:11:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d02c459cfe68b89f9fda9311e36e9534 SHA-1: 2ecb1584f9ce6c5ab733e80c59473fab91206b34 SHA-256: cd4dff854163ae5d86b1bc5ce9e1f998c7cf6d77dfdbbff769317dd7c7ff8476
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites. These sites likely host further malicious content or phishing pages, indicating a multi-stage attack. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an effort to distribute malicious payloads or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca21c79e072e62bb9ed353998d41ce90/wefetipezironevegevewux.pdf
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/sorusadejasatuge.pdf
    • http://imdad-egypt.com/userfiles/file/71115966100.pdf
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/pobukomu.pdf
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/resuwudetupewen.pdf
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/wojesinalijusilovi.pdf
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/37203582654.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa885b4818---56911567250.pdf
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77e7874834---josorebofevikonizokafeb.pdf
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/farogevasetupolutozugi.pdf
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee2630f4c4781646b1db4659770830d3/97785918272.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6f9308ef9---lanirule.pdf
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/7658427984.pdf
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/88557596240.pdf
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/nesofugi.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2029fac481cf802283189be68b252da7/jirov.pdf
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/488562625.pdf
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/dewunom.pdf
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57429615213.pdf
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/zokitomanipisom.pdf
    • http://nhhs78.org/clients/63854/File/jifizi.pdf
    • http://ez-surveying.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/68596481283.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9acd4d7c31---bobulugolafolutoseb.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=short+qualitative+research+example+pdf
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff3bd4ca87fa085c271c9a46e716a44/60421822478.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba66.bin
edb7628c57d5a544068c0da999684a229b32931632ccee703099b0702a7a2cec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA66 11268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4b2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecc4.bin
a26c7550e03eb9f22cce12d0ddf789c900a30e2662f38962b6fd10f8d7522491
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC4 17004 bytes