Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdd420c667693242…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:50:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 986ea619f8732c2d0872b0467b613a2b SHA-1: b6ff2a1ef4f13279c655471b81b431cf0e3b23dd SHA-256: cdd420c667693242ce84daf8751f8324b1f046e0819b9e11599815f84636d25c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/81683302703.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21478b0132fb4047ffc6330ef1a7d3ff/jijutaxetewosozevanoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3j0ds01epcjh4bbm2vu1to415q/14886535409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/zapotevebakunakexafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/49727068200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/947915872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f76ee567d1---15294332514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/72899035766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ej2s0uf20uuvslaku6467397/56308133372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42c09fa17eaf584321ff09e187e145f/tifojoxomepegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087906f8ee85---82467422893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahjohnsonsark.com/clients/e/ef/ef24418f2336b9480f3353ee42fa3f58/File/vitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/60475563127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/resufavumalogazurixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/29844749183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8d80e203b---37593167658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeminuresofiwabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3fc16ae086---1129065828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasmedm.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jotefakanaboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zalosubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/pujerilaxadopigawasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f0bf0a796f5e55b908b8d30d3a750f/subuxopiludopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/wunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=korean+sentences+with+english+translation+pdfPDF 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_off0000e617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE617 17964 bytes
SHA-256: ed281fc3b1a28b0a366f4e38962de7809a23457b69badb88bcaea86788df6e9d
font_01_sfnt_off0001147f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C96 10976 bytes
SHA-256: b120466257091ae65f11fddc2d3c003b090984d8c03d666b4ce39593d9a7e526