Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdfd85b3363581c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 20:46:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b7b5993f8315383009c3f8e63c76e114 SHA-1: a6965ba55401fad687a5e21f5f15ef8864889a9f SHA-256: cdfd85b3363581c613ae4cc5ddbda1fc057bdda16cd0043058c44433dae34270
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+mp3+song+chanda+ne+pucha+taro+se', are likely part of a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking through to a compromised site. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+mp3+song+chanda+ne+pucha+taro+se
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/11560539653.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba5e0574a2---boxobubonazewepimip.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lru4ou2vsg5ub4clp5841fqf01/23332225195.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qna8np285tdd9cqq83qlnknc9/18261118408.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1328d1687f5660c17cfd877864db810c/31066425696.pdf
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ele7u353kj1jgsmtv48c5m7df3/60209751324.pdf
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/dovetijolagowumulotofar.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83f5553e0f---dumixinujesapizaxizi.pdf
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e1a2c62d9---90769615137.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832fb462f5e---gegafa.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96aae75604---gajelukukafarinapenezi.pdf
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf54637048---34554136029.pdf
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr75ld4t4sffpfv048bjmkeqfg/rufejoludupiziwure.pdf
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p04a1mk1p7pulfr2mdfsrp5hg0/mevebozed.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5ff.bin
00dbc894ddc85b55a8ee8f3cc4daea6a460e40981eaeea58578cb07c568fcce2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FF 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8da.bin
b5402a6ddb34300951856be6a43e642d87d8821c53af5d21b9a1bc9fbef68700
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DA 10160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010bc3.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC3 4324 bytes