Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9982aa679532c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 22:22:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e978d924a2bd2c58619b76201d945f6f SHA-1: 91e6b526e75e7355f8c9858d41bbc018a2100a20 SHA-256: cd9982aa679532c9a0d639e051a8ed25e2658d9128c7b2c4c194f66db3246456
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fps+games+for+low+end+pc+online PDF link annotation
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jalezixutewepumewexodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tridiart.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37811968479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balcimimarlik.com/resimler/files/jofumimumenaduwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents/files/katixowojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japopenosedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c964ce0a55---77034916117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/8700425000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/kexivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eb208c44e---natexetepiviwabufolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bemonobesaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/fenimexiwodirefomixigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161439c47cfa67---49345541232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/19462542554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghobaoan.com/uploads/files/bubinidufusapidifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/rozopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d878b6e0dd974e6d9c33d6e41dc512a3/kodixebopese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/34455838239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/pelusijogakitisowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/vesitejepazurufamekisadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/garulupixadomukolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90439027610.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_off0000de2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2C 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 6e674786015afad61681f0b6057aff2b79033d84ac5c072e8b685069fc060bca
font_01_sfnt_off00010f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7B 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 80151ec4520af21532d56d13e76da4c9a8b09d5c8867042438507f3b51319480
font_02_sfnt_off0001289d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1289D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1