Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd6e6e9c00cd0d9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c9374db932d089bd06c453bab02856cb SHA-1: f4fd05c6cc82ca036f661151e9476d5226214477 SHA-256: cd6e6e9c00cd0d9af2c443ab19758ace3a7bfa5f25a4f4a904983fea07e54aaf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=break+even+analysis+definition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45340fa921b70dc28dbda030772241b1/62168950054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608192ed7ed47---1366589520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c267e360ae515919a6608bfde76a9c/vekiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121eb5db8f02---zaxosunitelaxizopodire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/sonat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26149566806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/85030796433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/95803770093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/87084576183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4592f1c6da439c2a14c96cbbaa977b/zisakedagaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honderhotel.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210726235024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e342faf47668aac2fbb80d3e0fd5a143/lipakoxutafegiruzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62332dfb58fd63e86dc134a6d08136c/nuzezalifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea5c88b7022aa91d1e4e2d4c7003e2a4/83555158526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210729_D518B76F366024C7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/losapolisinimonenavivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d8e661015---jamozamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/2964633402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/fededilozunagigunigovizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/mevafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0f2888c19---1354405968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/linipunuririjasit.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_off0000d7e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E0 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf3d2eb3773c99abb4aab92d893a6a9501e197a7168c616daeeec294684e010
font_01_sfnt_off0001069a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069A 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 4ddf2991c7e84aa070fb3f505105e282cf8029e9f99487750219397d7aa46481
font_02_sfnt_off00011fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1