Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cb6cf815ac94e02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c8b30ffeda1761f8b3bc78c0adf9d034 SHA-1: 83398a86d432d785a79216c37e4964795a543874 SHA-256: 1cb6cf815ac94e0282f76e0f28df624a2009f09ed2bfff91f2285f83aa762f75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external links and the nature of the hosting used are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/nujoxojobediwasuv.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rrhvgbvlncsid5snjpmakna9c/megovapidubakolagaj.pdf
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zawugobusozerilemaxe.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdfbe29134---fafefamev.pdf
    • http://rexant.by/upload/editor/files/16358156535.pdf
    • http://zonwering-belgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77897505310.pdf
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/dirufafug.pdf
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/giwexawarisupanufofelo.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608137fb3ab43---gasozezivu.pdf
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/77921415666.pdf
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/dadilimekifeka.pdf
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/21524501232.pdf
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/51963233842.pdf
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/litizisowega.pdf
    • http://eptesteplelek.com/uploads/file/dafaterijig.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cccoiuoc1djalsn4eu3vhjc07/sijekewom.pdf
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d68e2f783b4---10147046576.pdf
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/40260520601.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/47376427502.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/80182982809.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c003461c6bb---27162924726.pdf
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balalixuwe.pdf
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/2430293178.pdf
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/74581393827.pdf
    • http://vinczeandlaszlo.com/upload/dixiloxejagasuwase.pdf
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210523074315.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+food+chemistry+pdf
    • 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_off0000c795.bin
59e2df7a0fa7a560b4b96e0c3ee898c5f54cdc0d5d3e73e5a476580e4b48a9f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC795 16664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f212.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF212 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010a29.bin
476173ec9c88e321f91f8c75dbd85d41049b6e846802a26980028c4dbb6a28e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A29 10844 bytes