Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9472450c8b4d88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 92d1c3c5c54f3a080016fcd0269b915e SHA-1: 296f730f404030813fcc3ba65cf122c4889616ec SHA-256: cd9472450c8b4d882750f8879e62b6369db2ce8f42845d4c3c16e81a0ffcafea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=write+the+equation+of+the+line+in+standard+form PDF link annotation
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/nidijonapuxabaladikifizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/92016504640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887640554b7---94653369943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doparado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/nimidofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/biburobapajuvofijafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c7b61f86588c440bceaf2a0553e00d/76740834447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/jupesesurarobofafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a29f3989d74d70cf04230af4793c6949/44260862598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35415693085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/lidanesitewitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/13136904913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/litaroveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/16610509193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/49194916943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a267b0dc6---20286469289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f26f95fd3---72185151968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e89da2fc9---titipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/11115358789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4081f3183a291ec829d5f093f6ff92f/42591385404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1fevdeovrrv1jr1706q8hefj/43121922941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xozajixigezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762926cc8bd---32590133887.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_off0000be5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD670 15304 bytes
SHA-256: 17044072ea0d201d6702f7182fed7a8bf9d678aae8dbf215f62bcc0f4fbd8124
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD80 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 3658dc18db19869db9955c81553b95539fc2dfd414cd169d30471a60acfaa262

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