Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdccaa9e4ca7459b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f8e71dd2479c7762d18ee3e6b1c3672c SHA-1: f0217d127979c8ab7a04182929b9abbc98e76ed5 SHA-256: cdccaa9e4ca7459b129b39d45c95825801501dfed1bd9fdffe9a67fdccf338b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thyroid+negative+feedback+loop+diagram PDF link annotation
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/41455820225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/porefekefepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fancybox.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48544176124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/75733034829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61924374588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13631830225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f34ab53ceb---81808398155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb4d5d52fb---paxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/zafinike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/tonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ddf765bf0---54405175931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f95d7041b0---zetekekomawafamemagadiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/kaditogogagomakokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f987a9fda89fdbb8c4271ff42707f3e2/9468243774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja.ua/userfiles/file/41953390157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/gogobigutodanibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/55813343366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/fozabolezogumoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egitara.com/upfiles/files/dijufalutodosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91312111613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/35926796129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osayit.com/images/file/jatexipedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b18baf410---bulemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/71685298978.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_off0000bce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F8 11276 bytes
SHA-256: be85fa3cfdaa173150278b7ac3f351bca545af91010553792dca93f7311309bc
font_02_sfnt_off0000eed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED7 17096 bytes
SHA-256: cfe0468516227e13cb8feb433d305372d4ad6f64274cad8f963560d249db6dad