Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9b2d2abcd2a744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 65ba7472c267abed2260bfb5448b3086 SHA-1: 054698b0ea0250dd9bfa5262ded0275374e8e20f SHA-256: cd9b2d2abcd2a7440eb5ea9df34c991d8a00000486e00bb76865878f8cb915f4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a link farm pointing to various disposable hosting domains, including a compromised WordPress upload. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quantum+mechanics+approximation+methods+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202108040153467834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/guzorazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mko6dmh5pshp8fagdau12gdep1/povakaremoxabinasebunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhuadailoan.vn/upload/userfiles/files/40301836120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/taxiwejufojipokuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83879630121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sma-dfgg.org/site/admin/file/ravuterujilonezofopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078847fee815---75957720026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchonusa.com/uploads/files/zafomaruzepawepojasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/saguganamivafejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trvstore.com/userfiles/file/kilerilusafefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaidicattery.com/clients/f/f7/f7b4890cfba443994123e46b8078d6bd/File/94629528044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/pajexubaxujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/luputelivowujesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/50706116091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/90254173264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60345607322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f948ed9a81---deragunadusugaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evpap8l0m41j4fpjsan9gve7ut/77815036500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f275472bc---majogewowujukasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/totopumofunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83eea96e7b3920049864d36f4b1401ed/kopepudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c9f8a171c---lozobomavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timapools.com/uploads/files/jotoxipofolusewodadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f85cc0c59ecfb6523f657f1f827c8181/86197439603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c8f303eca---42192758648.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_off0000bc7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC7B 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 5abf7620ea35eeacf3d56da56a9e391085b07e3d1b85fb4b2a95898e5762da23
font_01_sfnt_off0000d642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD642 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 40c72157c827fd6a351be8e85b38a1e474044fc975435d6f20566b1542785369
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1