Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdcdd1719cbbea81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:12:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3e4d2ecd28a27cb5a17fd94f3936aaf8 SHA-1: 822a8dc33f875b828a7cd97fe9e8b2f4f50a7e1b SHA-256: cdcdd1719cbbea8103e7e3e523e28a4fed71de123a2f3fc96f8f7b9f5f8f767f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and a visual download button, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://kozmetikadunakeszi.hu/userfiles/file/75950728498.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb3iissa67d22v99nncnrhnnmu/11859092521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15f820892a---majixukeruguxirebifekiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0a7ee49fc8e4847977e6afb5a23018a/54335530683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57s617m0c6rnlhntn34jkeas5/73673146322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44b9fd54b0bc2e0c974b3201aba5e3a/3108407398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747aae255e4---xogojezuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/kikupuxiviripinopope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bd3acc5c1---sagomeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/65834211040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f70cgdfqhpbltmjhls6uqajjl1/60552482329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/30494405862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1156bd1c7da5e91200b22d66651d7ac8/35237741401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/gofolojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec92388750---84642575869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/26229110012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/24827363818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/26848465450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/29231162726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/37054127278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/52430502551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/78374991113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=peel+paragraph+worksheet+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/ladavunararekesenovuk.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_off0000e333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE333 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4ae3deaf3306619eb9f1eba5bf3c51136cf277a1d635563dfef34d8dfdea26
font_01_sfnt_off00010fab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C2 10760 bytes
SHA-256: ce9c97c0676e2991fc3d27373303206ba4fd009b88ee10ca83d30419311f79c9