Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cecd40759703a58c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:35:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 18eddbd43ef8c29c9543e47ce875750a SHA-1: 968ec53c74941fc26afba86a4a580b7314e0c95a SHA-256: cecd40759703a58ce3aea21c5bdf66b878ec7d0611fe96b0de9527c998782722
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attack pattern, potentially leveraging a PDF exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutaku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mesahighclassof64.com/clients/874441/File/940799145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/38814315976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/gamutakuniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/bozizaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f140b5dbed3---47922156451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/pofalefimoxowarutaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28856880558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/68185231471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cigsu61rjj885i5qhbd1mn83v2/zururisizoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents//files/44130099286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99759042901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3467128f79680c282fb08d5ba453fe/24937088447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/rivesorukurirugunokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/bimeseguwupunemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/maviresugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8282acf6103851d8be9fc6eb66cd4608/58601956322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.e-oswiata.olesnica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67822365684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/97101000889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mce0pstap0hoq5s9o27mighrqo/zeropugulixazuvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizecanreklam.com/images/file/wenebobula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/webuwalekibavuzifefozezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656aca47882a4d3f4374713f77f9d3cf/gizukirolegugofijonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=rrb+ntpc+exam+pattern+2019+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00010281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10281 20772 bytes
SHA-256: f727f84d1b2ad8e7e936fc75f712b4984c03b67778034e55cd58dd0aea9f4782
font_01_sfnt_off0001391d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1391D 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1bcbce9f0fe4940f8d2a76414ab3d1f1dada43f003e31ea07a06f35566748e
font_02_sfnt_off000153d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1