PDF malware analysis — malicious · dcd9516438e82214

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:06:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13

MD5: 73a97315c7b6a0a45f1b7ac46e5bd266 SHA-1: ca3a001fa70bd329e602774cd54af940aaff8086 SHA-256: dcd9516438e82214cf86e4b77898555e1659f73eb3166b64d3901c40013daf4f

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=commas+and+apostrophes+worksheets PDF link annotation
- https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2bf8bfc22---jifomirujiwofekunipo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094fc1da310e---47918972779.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sizakajafinomubegawewup.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc4a227b1---japeparek.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5677771ea1---1864742681.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f4308d06---81720861411.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/begiram.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b65aab8489---91474909812.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07c0ad54431558fdfc0f4e47764569c6/42759649242.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d648584ec23---foxixidarep.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ksuskalology.com/images/file/86602911459.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/vixufi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be461788943---11399413181.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7ea3b489ac5605ea102308df685e3f/zujidadefadokisalevizoka.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d06cc0b10f---7478525814.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/pufarujigimuturiledumu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/vubenunoromufimiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aebdfpmbjso14grh6vhu8llnk/xedisigozuk.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e1d36ee0a---mumazujapesumejoxakij.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76bjr3uhsclcreel6dcfcg1mi/vevolupixa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/93629176459.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b7233e049055f063b16c038db79487/29169919345.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/6572269651.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/32945102821.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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000cd52.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD52	16376 bytes
SHA-256: `95e9b11e9c1ce25242858ae577a007ea645f9efa0a4438ca1eef05dc749c27f9`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000f79a.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79A	10728 bytes
SHA-256: `390c57101a100b0fb983229cd1f03c60c1b0cd3adcf88e67d81b62a3282f3ce2`
`font_02_sfnt_off00011027.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11027	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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