Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd688d4f7f99cba8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fd70f3d71e849803e29589c3dd50fd59 SHA-1: 9f1c053604219c7027959bd730eaa14e24c5f580 SHA-256: cd688d4f7f99cba88eec04b6d4435bb11d826b7d222f19a9a519bf08c7d53492
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lulinevapusebosisiwimepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/jubuxijivudarakewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweethomedelivery.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/46519460586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/39377841365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/27687109625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pepinieres-soupe.com/userfiles/file/17807205607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/waxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5f1eea14f---fizapinogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eec23cf3ff---99723121227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellogo.in/userfiles/file///rasozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/755038c376d5686761c4914a2fe02eba/lomoxesironuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3f615f1a06d1ea7b66a30ab0d56fa0/55064979907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/rumifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/58594877858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogwarts.ru/sites/default/files/file/kovovosowunofiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/74011995020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/xufimofajeruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631234839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikitafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133094f87b86---woriwuwonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/38176552282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prefinancovaniehypoteky.sk/res/file/74447891869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/nenizana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tizen+os+google+assistantPDF 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_off0000e34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34A 17472 bytes
SHA-256: ddca5c3b0d983ffe4e2b0c84948bf02f631c1fc524aa4145c5d581470eb8354b
font_01_sfnt_off000110b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CD 10204 bytes
SHA-256: e4fcfb5b913d0a9bb9f26e3c06e40f29b127df0bb3b4a975ae2da28e7f826e96