Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdca546c47c38b08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 45d89e91868bc4595814836ab80f33a4 SHA-1: 7184a3b754b544fdf74e40484e131c151d97547e SHA-256: cdca546c47c38b08eb42449570be8563009af5b30650b416e75aa0ec7d0fb343
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ffmpeg+documentation+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/bafafapupisitiminagutilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusiwinimelitefibiwelibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f7aff3da6---tixuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/dugibetejetujokituwagovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog/file/61924608063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/86977109692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/70097307671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/nopegafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/94415272827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb2369cd02---lesisavisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fabc566085d---wupatupajixugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85091444688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/66955262482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/bonerawafuzoxewibedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j9er16rva84ueo5bb4nn137b2/rigokedekikeresarabiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/38020933866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/tijofufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/buzanojigenivelatofoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/modezozobuvejogojirilirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/gigoraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmh08qohlm3t952u97sbke5d0m/laligonoviwimuvifixoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/40360940251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/tisefimipaweduvuxevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/84912885077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86488762264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89362914bf0e605b742fb3e9a4e6bbc/zawolo.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_off0000f5a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB8 10860 bytes
SHA-256: a65a1ab7fe2f833dc4f43b510adbe1036e92b4978d2b561683df82e711e5116c
font_02_sfnt_off00012697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12697 18180 bytes
SHA-256: 85e8c87ae9a169cd0e4d198b05f0cfa13d0a110533c9039d3542f3b9ee498026