Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5993767db5d988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1ea7e40634800454b734055c2c29428a SHA-1: 61cc2bf859b2f494a50b547aeea1a1eee2e21744 SHA-256: cd5993767db5d988cb8367d0bf87e9e7207230cc188864ae9f05a14d1730ddb9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, including those pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a raw IP address in one URL and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ktet+category+1+question+paper+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6643262274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99036d40d5---jomagekazase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bb616186042---jotesuduzoretujubikuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adff7e419f1---44199798580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39fc59fac146fe45a7832c2f9d42b6a/tipoxekedojilubabibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/1626117227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074915ea6cbb---60243893761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc4ritqaj55dqmii7ctk8th4c7/38531398595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68dfee5fd2---kofuwobuvebinexabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/vevujesewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/mabotatanurixetola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/liwodino.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131fpbo04ua6l5qbbt8509seg1/61611544755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb7fbe4092da3b126d47362e4fd83479/39428676001.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_off0000d82d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f03f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03F 16968 bytes
SHA-256: bf7dbb6b3bfa5902bc6d49679cd085960c438b1e55576c88d8ff9c07c1ae3cb7
font_02_sfnt_off00011cab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAB 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 414037ad2de7e8e8e3066881cc52a3ab20f0bb7e1c97283eb026d2e46b818b0b