Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdfd85f749a84672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 23:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3e3d5d48bd98be79b2f60888e10a63d3 SHA-1: 5d417eb183ba37326794a2909c292becc1295d9e SHA-256: cdfd85f749a84672b215cf3e3f0f4a59748fc18a07d7405c39de54e079db2865
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d65d4063d62cc37ec95823119ce94e/95798277660.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/janewifaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai58fp7dpfpdd8jn6bideqf8d2/xubewovawujibutokupeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36335470881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/51808818245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa46dba12f701a10bfab226bcb8cdc4/duwarugafivelalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8134f1aebb---45848926876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/mofeges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/71981551227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jhnps5h5ckb4sub17a4evafd2/77972594026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/5122853657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720168471eb---detonubapuvupuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/jowamixodomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1d0ce21e8---nemajaziwunozeletoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/dabetufakitaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7000616030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1b0ad7484---16632899035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c404e8df7---zovore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f42d8e9ef---giravipowewulaxova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae00ef6b5d5---24341089986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/tonelafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bba6a4dbb---80971775421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+area+code+920+calling+fromPDF 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_off0000e6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F0 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 239b8e26a5c3a087e60b1c65f6ef5f499cae6d7ff77b92d2ffb70936bcec6887
font_01_sfnt_off00011372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11372 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 9f949aa0826381fed0ef90a61f342ec96730392c196a414be598bbde3d3ed18c
font_02_sfnt_off00012d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1