Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb4591a463bbe76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4930ddd3e579bebe8f5d9793bb1f36ff SHA-1: 61645654491ee4ce0bcd51fc21a451e5dc2ea26a SHA-256: cdb4591a463bbe766aa992f96623e67a8949fa2a33aad8dd98505738b0be5b88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to distributing further malware or leading users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e174293606e9b23c748ea1abb5b995c/32007933279.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/kijilovazofuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabajisarotulatetuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soribitaduzumafuroleruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/29121455555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210810153309_xnr59p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b0d58c7e6---72157677564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/31945956558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82e0201e5f6d60d281f9346dc6830601/92918860700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b840ee5a84dee2302ba68a4b6fb65a31/katipojajorotibisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717b55b3896---wixerokupegilokibisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c515235cef2618957acbb368ac7a7552/gedulefirotoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/35489835157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/rixajaguwawuvopidipivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/siregujenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/71704674590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609608dd50f15---golitusebigedulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/30648173596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoqhi8r4fosm9mndhvk7a7uc66/93863221774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolotopinizikawuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732f0dada3b---53461145281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/jisetinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcsiprojectracker.com/userfiles/files/30521941396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+solving+worksheetPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D3 18592 bytes
SHA-256: b843c1a7c1c6aac6b7a78681c3b95d6d21d459d07ad9a17cd31e9b2b5c1aecea
font_01_sfnt_off00011379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B90 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 70e76b7f336bf22ccfee38fea2ff43f33894b7721b41936091637e388c777c1f