Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cbbfe1b8c6d996e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:17:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8924753be432879f930db216ea79516f SHA-1: ec2a2f7c049f6d75a85d430c0a165e1efda08bef SHA-256: 0cbbfe1b8c6d996e16f0187922158550aba63302a26b58e4da285a4b9e428f9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dangling+modifier+worksheets+7th+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3695737683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/43769971534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861f3d4e802---55133503809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a807008fbf919eb17c568523c10545c/zotuziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rachelrom.com/rescontent/file/gezavulafifavurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m5n2vgif4qks2nov9dtnrmcn0/25233750033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/84543447443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/26125603764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eb433f3313e10c70e5a1b1dd74d6c23/wujexaxapatagazufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b91637bc9114e0cf8b777f0f17267d/nuwumosusebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121bdb58e27c---digasabexenipivizomopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856aa60941f---98763098413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cc5cc4988---25068980207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/12601985686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d046aa09b---16058913160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af497f25a92---2692926824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbaaec47e5---80559702442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/69157907204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46825192734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/porigumevakinederom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/82107037533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca69de1a37---daligodikugaxipalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1d91bc5e6---20474687018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagorjeadventureteam.hr/files/94199314923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac99a347189b727eafedc74b8185c902/90109590067.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_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 18960 bytes
SHA-256: 8f8951247deb26829671fbe7ce45f096a6d798f2069908dfc5e9c96e4bb3ecdf
font_01_sfnt_off00011d28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001353f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1353F 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 1caad14886af0406ebf8276d5248ec998f97e7b1e0f0c9bf126a9346748d6595