Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdcec3a9b4b9cae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0025d2c50528d580d206f099e2966c48 SHA-1: 979f9ad3ee10576ccd8e2849b28506e19c1cfb33 SHA-256: cdcec3a9b4b9cae85c40103bf1463225193a003f55e5d1e93df2e4b8bc20cb79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=core+competencies+of+a+company+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c60ecb4a7a---18450337547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbdd234a63---87628162119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/22197931266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/fejeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46818627823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/wawofefakuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/80385699820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qps8dh21v9ej42seogp1krpd5/86008138337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1e0476fb3---18726897501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a36f03a95a68b1b77c494e99404f2ac5/97448174053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b76202e5d90966815714cc5aa3b7bef5/9616013812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb04b83a5e63f73c1dfaef1e8a06b03/fiximisogedotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af37250b79f1e6116dd9958154b987d6/19027982745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607656c54b9b5---nawoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/nanami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/zumufibimabasodibula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/44496435016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smit-electronic.hr/upload/datoteke/63959024776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ac297b249---9475866041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/ketovuvebosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cb6413d5e---tonoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/12708085335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/titobikevajujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/43535503742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a729160baca2665c3fb1f3e7fc5d5a51/wagojaludekemumelafadoba.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_off0000f656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF656 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 44dd70c835cbcd9d02e477808b517ee05e387a3139104e8b939b5fa0f562aebb
font_01_sfnt_off000122c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C4 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 61634973c9be9727de46dbfe369a54d7fdfdbdbc77090ed1b03e37824c34c528
font_02_sfnt_off00013c0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1