Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5600210878296d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a8671e216413c0c61f95ad07c551a9c0 SHA-1: 6efc0c7a58b7c67d32b4e13e394da28658607280 SHA-256: cd5600210878296d4544fac5852540bab07b1c341d1bbaad6cf376c855393908
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document uses lures to encourage user interaction, such as enabling macros or clicking on links, which is a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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 http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takutemaxuzasinerekaxilux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/nazegugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zima.italie-ubytovani.cz/data/file/mazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pilodadaganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/77176233487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/nogupefovenarorosabeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/votimexapirozirinuwukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/63668130451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/userfiles/file/povumawiwazazukatubavor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/2333179477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c54febad5d6238e790789466af4946/kobupeboruxilogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613221f624916---50159151587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/4867568329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/mirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamepizabedowogiworazaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/pexasirigomovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28604246584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/sepamizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr4jolh8762et6a8jme36k6itv/49022685921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/goseresoxejipomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/zofitovusotakosugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/64049011962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/jixemuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb5521a714---89636611312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669b8ee6a6add7f780793ac7f4d1e4f1/24231344887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=lost+keyboard+on+android+phonePDF 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_off0000d68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA3 10744 bytes
SHA-256: b29a508cf0b0c9ac1f06988df47e8c0b815dbe671042c364103cb86f04f73a91
font_02_sfnt_off0001071b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071B 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 3aab77e21d2432cbddb6100ad88f3eb42bec37faf55c83f77ffc7ba3343c7649