Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9da677a5c8c18e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bb468e97167eef01531c98bd789a46ef SHA-1: ce89fbc59fce42954fc03ff0870827b6bed94e89 SHA-256: cd9da677a5c8c18e4cae754a0a4dd0159b82745b66518072f83ed13277847f17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=total+recall+2012+parents+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/dukikusoruzelamegezegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/21948709604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/fojenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/15425881532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/zawupekote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/7062826212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30576a3ab0069940db64af70a39cbfc6/lokilimokowasatarelemabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46b78ba840cb756b44238e452a5c3095/muridonozexevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819f17ccef9---baxizozivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyreviveshop.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/ritixubepafazejomovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6984d4bd026522c1af8ca5bf18abf6e/titunigufebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce5a3f7ecb27de367cb5aa3e29339e2/24888298244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/fetosamatoxuxaferuwidori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/gozizawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d27ba6fc10---xuzixenanasefimadoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/21936263051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947fec028ea---zutolazovunojovakedaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/92910070877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021061600555359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b805b0131e4---10500755888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609496db2ad3f---88398906283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a65b8df5e452b771331a2d854a45b2/wixopijuwamogujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/tivugarepafovosugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac8612cd5c1ef6713864bceedd3cdca/rexazopagazabiwabajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccfaa52eb0---18978480835.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_off0001bf2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001d73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D73D 19044 bytes
SHA-256: 7663680ed46de006af645a7490e598223c3aed4466b8a7124bef0d3fd3cb60fe
font_02_sfnt_off000208be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x208BE 11048 bytes
SHA-256: aaa3792f003e5c19e0b408613427634af485e97b477335ba10223e84671f7e69