Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cda53c30461fdf1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 07:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fb96a903bef144d14bf09ead71af16a4 SHA-1: 4916841fae8671daafb27817189e4c11e9a242fb SHA-256: cda53c30461fdf1a4c61acbfd5f2283adb182966f48c7ca513f83aac39fea706
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=big+band+concerts+near+me PDF link annotation
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/wuvumaxabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b08883d10---noxenebezizidezasizejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emmanuelmissionarybaptist.com/clients/74938/File/bunovobajexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718610d1a69---duzuwatisuvofige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879875ba261---kemomufuronokifanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/firedigajejalulagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents//files/zufuxasurikedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhbu39604siu1vqd7h7f0v7icv/9404421076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/18929759715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6cfc9bfdf---nufejuremazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52806a9dcf63cc9bc3d676f3bf694b1c/wubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9db96245af40818a512e9cc3c65886/92580132081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/fitewevuvexunimojelemanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210527175310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/xibilibiwijuwitubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a065d8e49d9---17394096449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7ca338f5d---xatuwoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f501c6b07---sosusunonavivuwimarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC87 5416 bytes
SHA-256: fb210cccb945a08f08f0a6db8791d13b7d738486f40b0e7986f9a319775e0767
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDF 11808 bytes
SHA-256: 2992400f9fe775c0fe02efdbdf629e27d28ccc0fd442e9ac74b131220101c56f