Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdf195723bf4be28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:14:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bd6ec4f818ada22c1353b59d2013785f SHA-1: abf26917e4b0e240afe5b6320695ba09465f8de2 SHA-256: cdf195723bf4be283d046a76724b04b0e32b907314106a83dbab3a1ef6556f6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and link farm characteristics suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca6ac3a757cca8ff005921e7d88767e/62160717143.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c784322a3---80195064395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/pifipusebawajinidakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762ecd858d6---66085704100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/13423599994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74bcea29e8---43668804350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/9587035507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609861617968b---63663915644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48815309077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c60c793cafb03c21f7e9c37de8b5cb5/suzegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f30297aba4---mijubifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/tokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/siwamoduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d091e95c065---71114954820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/99511179168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a683722dc46---zowulorirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/vobukiwarevetolare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/denofelonuwura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapafuxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22c89b9236846eb16346cb8e8cfa1f2/78211879233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0aba59e23---54482672486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/birufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/35080697628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/vewabakudugoxowadodarejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=calculus+related+rates+problems+and+solutions+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_off0000dc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC01 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab9c75e64e331212a093e23cedd749b962d9d2ebb661a9a330b0dd287b32a29
font_01_sfnt_off00010a36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A36 11052 bytes
SHA-256: d9c0c6641afacc0ef56a604e291560bea0a44c5e50fac65e3491b41386d39c23
font_02_sfnt_off000123b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1