Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdcdb17cb01756e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 094f58c4aeaeee0ec05f985f71774924 SHA-1: 612cda814162c9acad6c0b0fe42fc0b96c40458b SHA-256: cdcdb17cb01756e3d55bed08cf31b6ca023e303c7360e49aa671c97a96c24f32
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' suggests a payment scam pretext. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or malware distribution attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/77286018140.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/14984839457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967bf6b4983---99668864374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d023894caf4824e7e16ef18a6f82faca/58264454011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/beritojope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86474452111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o82js307jd7enr3ahu299u64p7/4150881649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1624360567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/buvexuxefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akr7pcthi3evvpoqoadjtr9uh7/5635204811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/6732179420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0f569377f3eef978e854ace9eb1c2d/98908294886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/fufixudafifopitubokokesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/bonazivubosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcubljamni2973da5kjv4eff23/vawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d70f20d19d---86364446725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60008056368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu164p5puelj38r25dh00nmeaq/kedazorevomazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f5d11cfec---71027842447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ra93che3f2cb0r9crpr10hbo20/xinoxajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/giwevaviniwizapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607585d696ec5---75107991366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsoj0lsdm5fh31ti82fp1lea7j/powipakerisorale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=risk+in+international+business+pptPDF 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_off00011f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F8E 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4b3efbd6bc86612339309c5197592a2a25f16c058877463931952705a544f5
font_01_sfnt_off000137c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C0 17928 bytes
SHA-256: e16eba778b05f34daaf024fa30527970a5598c425c6ec982fea3fa313079e8c3
font_02_sfnt_off000166ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1