Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd4e070e4d7a94e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:23:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ff41500a905c2ea4e95ebac863c88cb2 SHA-1: 72c04dea5d2d80110144c07ada6321b205e991e8 SHA-256: cd4e070e4d7a94e1cf15fe497a9727b88d44b40fd28c957a7e919b040d8a4e11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instagram+increase+like PDF link annotation
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/pigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmapmc.com/userfiles/image/files/jimugatelejodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/97487330601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/35061657463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/64076281339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/55235789977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/luvefazetawenosovilolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.eu/gymostrov/userfiles/file/mekupobalaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/64339878799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147b805b4f88---87284165813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce40758249---62457678584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a5b177b6f---gitisikupezekegadopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/62818990072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slkuang.com/v15/Upload/file/2021912452531097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusebugezulomidekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/dudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de56d28bfce278f70483815084aa0d1/51111023260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nrjqil2ifmjcmk7ri834f5nv1/nikajabalibatetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/rojoxedasumuzixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/xeseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/21029083178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/25574540209.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_off0000f12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12B 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 1c41284fe29b6d96c54952896d932bbc0f0f48789144905f1e18f35768469d71
font_01_sfnt_off000108fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FB 18156 bytes
SHA-256: c065e45df535a85c1cd85ab975eccf81f86ac9aee98e7129a6dbe19be208ed8b
font_02_sfnt_off000137e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1