Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cfb9ada567591c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 646fb5afa8fe0eaaee42d7c838baa26a SHA-1: 4cfffeda887dbfd0d20b57df3330af4fe246696c SHA-256: 0cfb9ada567591c2c898beac90cfa73ce1bb973967e20dca5f1ad251628ecb49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable due to encoding, but the heuristic firings and numerous extracted URLs provide sufficient evidence of a malicious link farm.

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 http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/72468717774.pdf
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/sojikokamanosuwavutuwimap.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c935c043d9---pemapifanunuvafuze.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cf40cdd63---52881805705.pdf
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/giwojexajizogem.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ea3812e3c---ruzifev.pdf
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434b23718936a62e8eac145978a4dea4/70892579882.pdf
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72430338450.pdf
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11617985332.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df6ea815e0---65543361767.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f736323fec---wasule.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791be413621---panenikaminatinedalote.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7640b64041e5e18ef3112487f745fd0e/84241752776.pdf
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/55658924949.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/26294557193.pdf
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/refotevowipelapunak.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a123d258951---42298137283.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qudno27mkafpei993jvfehlc9e/gixotajugewolegagixetel.pdf
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dbe5bed9b9892c8a5ce35ac4f85d02a/zuxovasazosiwelivuxo.pdf
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607050ffb67da---bukejunupute.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f82d3a5ca1f5519b8c753adcd352de67/35321951388.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715badad4d3---60919633922.pdf
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakunodomisaruragev.pdf
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/ganenisi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+treatment+for+eating+disorders
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb32.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB32 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e344.bin
63ae6c447786accf80415f3cb25c4ee6af31b0d9fde3e048e26e6c2ef0914279
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE344 16056 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc7.bin
28aad7292eea09bd180855a8064734927c92d606e34d0c9b9926a2b56e0a9f57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC7 10872 bytes