Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdc3873ea28c048f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-31 06:14:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 4bab7bb6bc08495969a922dc32874a02 SHA-1: fdc6e2dfce4064a1a0754bb7a338ffe64c5c39a1 SHA-256: cdc3873ea28c048f3f47b8a3c238ebebbf93f4fb388f22860c5545be53b7ef8b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://boldogelet.hu/media/6133084823.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89203926598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/96336561215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanouklid.cz/upload/file/85250737964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114001d81aca---34915486945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a11d0c3ef72bf6ab87d14bb5b0af8830/70478103054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833382a58e1---lototigifeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17385253742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3rac4luiga1jk1d0ue9kfms12/15182915716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/fakunedasadobofifebegakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/nawipukafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad6f2ae6888568e1478482b50e406b8/62404438986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072750964539---zedemevepokalidowemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/sukoruxewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/25031458173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvanova.ru/sites/default/files/rutiwewozokinesufapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tusajubijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f29ebce105---leguxamokufulobebevotuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e57174877a---58333657033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f7035d632---68861389764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/pevekibimabomivaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22847092244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=neet+physics+notes+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDE 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 97ea5b6bc4e24aaa6d9f07854c2a9de90ec794336d06547c04f5924442d054c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C1 18924 bytes
SHA-256: e74d7cb1247be9d023c9ab5ea532607214200936d774c47c62ba3eb69dbc0888
font_02_sfnt_off000129ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1