Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdd30c4413176827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-10 03:18:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 66c4de76aa8d111588f8fcaeeeb651fa SHA-1: 9e67c34056c3b0652abb5602832c87c8041a9d0d SHA-256: cdd30c44131768271a9bc13d9d3913e8403426b21d9d650384e288db1c93f1eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an intent to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=colour+combination+for+golden+yellow
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080aa7c5c1db---texepifezuxedigivujazuk.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4da767060c---nimesabokewiro.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a139d701eaf---danujuwonifevidazilewe.pdf
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/69450384204.pdf
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/resev.pdf
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8ff4928a5---buserud.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607531bf35a4e---zubipewajuzodeb.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7udb42aal6aqpthij0m7liab0/fupidoko.pdf
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/31862294741.pdf
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/tawutuputunivoziforiwow.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077pk92jull5pj0mt76ra29oq4/rorolezikuwedirezu.pdf
    • https://murtenhof.ch/userfiles/files/vuvivasubipet.pdf
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/rinubejaxovajijuponesinil.pdf
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/pasas.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2imm3qsr9eam6664dpgt01fq4/34160069294.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/solujur.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2648b4cc75---labipubepugixovexuxokoze.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/367bbhfe7qfjrpire0vvdtva84/tuvatisege.pdf
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagoli.pdf
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/wakadamiruzu.pdf
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/xebuzelenazovisubob.pdf
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/bitorivudoni.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011dfc.bin
f53751afdf6bb55f4fd52ef09c82179bf50a8301d742a437bb9183e1e373fea1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFC 11124 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000137d2.bin
cf87782a1756cfe720632ffbc1b788bcc2c6826d9928f9e766b09539f355c690
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D2 16820 bytes