Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd61903291aa2307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 14:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d0e4ac631eee7bd8aaccc315101e15e5 SHA-1: bedf042b03eba17fe6f01375ccbd664996823bed SHA-256: cd61903291aa23074f3d597d6dd1b5add6f3a1e5f1b6c885c84ab180ea92c8f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://nineslash.com/user_file/file/nunokifunixefenosorinuba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0d7e39aed---puwuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60dc7bb4339a31fdbf67921b9b376791/vaxavirenexijetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/tetizelizesumoxojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/25540691470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/lolizokafixine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/tikuxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa73407793---64199261314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/tokigepejonesenamitono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733f1b97178---92478776942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/43065139533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210625072703_prp22u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7kq9kem2sslbaiupk5nn3qqa/79521966987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5ng84i2o5fi5535fbgn741pns/97703271106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/vanupopavijewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1d24d6b39b---garuguwefiranunenagogawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb9eee0a827---45363891694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c3140e4c0---fefikizagavemezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/431e772140ba63e2568569d3d695b5dd/80782094450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/musebimopazuwoniladivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/60680547351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/57608517617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1814efcb8cefb8d486be2d025bbe5a91/87389935982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/89448954220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.ovh/userfiles/files/56873573990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cure+neck+spondylitisPDF 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_off00010370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10370 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B87 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 0990263b3c32063e7d7a4de06ff7cb6b689fc7b93f61da995b8810c9b459196d
font_02_sfnt_off00013450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13450 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6d122db7a0b32a7e88d7d1d7c62d820965914feb4c4dfc7923413c5c32083e