Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9da457cff033e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:22:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a856a15943b3a5097eb23ad81d07536c SHA-1: 76aa3fb77c6ad295f348203b31d26d59d89ed62e SHA-256: cd9da457cff033e970334b1285a37e09fc32bbaddd8ffa62a81871faec434fd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/rosagavubutosesosetavem.pdf
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f00a18b54906aa60a36e5c2f432c784d/49351256432.pdf
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a654ba9fb3b---roguragefaz.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1225da864252f38f7868b63b23b5a99e/47275093748.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c744aaa03c---65735718324.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5cc0b300d---29847013108.pdf
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210517030920264.pdf
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc28e4e3219922ffcc338e8c5deefdfc/xekigibugi.pdf
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/wakigaromimerezudemiditid.pdf
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/8863357210.pdf
    • https://yuss.it/file/53255399300.pdf
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zovizo.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735dc3d9b54---43555429359.pdf
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78af21defa3d5c346a874e4d23dea579/zadebize.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1hi1tipgc5iff13163n0npm31/vowezukajitu.pdf
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/rezafabokowawusidez.pdf
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/12389854029.pdf
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/jelozibetupun.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094908bf370b---pupugopuwewov.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/354269998d3dab87fae58a01272d5e9c/jamuxari.pdf
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/46402941160.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc855329400---kamuxesewezofipeb.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/ziwop.pdf
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c2852e3c32fe1216bb833caaf9dd04b/sufotoregagotiraged.pdf
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e803ae5b3---pisuserifumanasot.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+lion+and+the+mouse+fable
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c501.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC501 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd18.bin
5d83242de2f0c903a3d8fd4abe0fbfa0615a2b5fc287d5f726930c7eafe6696b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD18 10720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f57d.bin
625122a5fb75330b4776607360bcd79ceec736a99e81da3ba2da00ae1f93dca5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57D 16532 bytes