Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd610aa61a66c9a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: cc43c792a11b61ad759f12c3accc994a SHA-1: 84bf4009f0f1a659e50c2e78c489bf17c4b88377 SHA-256: cd610aa61a66c9a318a79d1eb6dded8df2cd990beac1db5cd3f2f7bcf395dc60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+days+of+darkness+in+the+bible+kjv PDF link annotation
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/wumugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/91511276691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/vapejotunofixudajukasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f4a4b320e3787a82027fa382006e512/walexiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c41a801b39b9b44ffe7368a2ca6e9350/ladukewuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9t3dej8q5orcjapc9bgoo337u/99660175100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53b33e3abc---36488471838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/betgakefnqqtkjl8c4h0bbdks3/50640227184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/90254173264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078776d5f8f0---tetobevipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cc49c5d32---ronidudikosimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab143c208c1---29155284451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/jamozepoxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/vitoxotebanuwezimuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/797b13d99103d4615f7b8ef5fcf58d22/48135083165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9bavsebic79jcfanu937lfq26/60452211743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/22143042899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4577105ef3a16dff5d75ff0d8e5ae82/junupaxobozigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e07fcde3d5---60368085689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884ae2d3a5f---80019912068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9b14c8732---kitovaretesozirebalanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d17be3c7b320be358e29c558423851/wotexuluzazuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/zewalupete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985bd052a66---biwovefazivomozixorakubal.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_off00015896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15896 16604 bytes
SHA-256: f12fe329192dc8c1597c6a20ed4b0242d7c7eb4c10f018f8eba1ae32f65abc60
font_01_sfnt_off0001836e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1836E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B85 11068 bytes
SHA-256: d2afdb5eea5937b98485a2092e4942ad66562c15a682c54a14a554b591622ae9