Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 128cb6dea33425fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:02:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cb434cc48842a1c2f0dd636d3c20367e SHA-1: 037d0c17b864099c8b4f87db7de406027a62985d SHA-256: 128cb6dea33425feb646e95111d24f0855285728e910228b525ee94dc2a13645
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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=sad+but+true+quotes PDF link annotation
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/56967628518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/97641697154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/65015282324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/37812194315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/539fec8ad7539c2f0b3fb98285239c67/nalitifijagori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaroyalenews.com/userimages/39895354278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138334c25394---misokikizezeloposekifirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/gopelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centrosanmarco.eu/img/news/files/xotogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/jiratila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021091405233839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/45061491569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26aa3bd29fe597183dd2f52cb33e1e3c/65355810205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/71065350343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363f456079f---37798358403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51825716620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71131039344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moiarchitekci.pl/pliki/file/solavasexekedujunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajkolandia-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/fifimoxipojuremoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-jtech.com/userData/board/file/18237818097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/91132598457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/panalurefodalodekoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210907173100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/debotodexozogovaruvelizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/84213549409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovowijanedavigitiwet.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_off0000feed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FF 18500 bytes
SHA-256: 4201a5eeb2d459413012528ad3d2ddac5deab69ee80c27cb6f85e64733cad1bd
font_02_sfnt_off000146f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146F3 10460 bytes
SHA-256: dc4c316dca30a86fb593d672bb25881df5f99c18614b7c201f7a0809a2048a8c