Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdfa5ccfeeeeba8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 12:22:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cb7c12e769bf7cf705fe59c56adabb69 SHA-1: 6921537e08716f3e784c261636bb285fa6c6e3be SHA-256: cdfa5ccfeeeeba8d59aa2abb6bc8542f6fe65c2ffb9aeb21836e732558a3124a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports the phishing lure attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=debug+app+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://gestioniarmatoriali.it/75521906053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/fatuzepenejefatuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/30546627475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/10981313992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filipdegreef.be/uploads/files/masimebubuzidafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/36570143544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icf-plant.com/files/file/25224919895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saptabangunmanunggal.com/indomobils/upload/file/supuxosikorurina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/13542128911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/jaxowuraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/wokaloresadetafifabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24810831470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b3c9d54e75---xazutabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/67123365358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613888ad19c4c---jerizerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44486625711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0a58bbfb540719b1d94d476a36be98b/japekujituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/nobaxabizaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/29979388276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90902946127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88604259133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342f8bdb322---kokepadaviguzusuvebetoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/96816379796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/genarufapewirafaretujudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35184499435.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_off0000d865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD865 18404 bytes
SHA-256: a9ac75477753771eaa50fc97fb3bfec965a1b1186896af36bd96559acf423349
font_01_sfnt_off00010885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10885 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 8b55824db43580fbe83154293c4b37d75fd038b548d9a33b2504f7c215cdcf69
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1