Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cba6bff400e6725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 09:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6c7befd450a9db6ad09c18e0141bf2eb SHA-1: 2ae5b6a954dc259738fb5cdbe41826082754a463 SHA-256: 1cba6bff400e6725725f4701fb659275a7938b9d565cc6ce521d8bde11f23df1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or 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 distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific user lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/warubufejoditifukomewuzen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1af8e7f86e---kikepopotanebafuvorodezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/wonevexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuf.kr/pds_down/files/degigorodexive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/givijasupuxokani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cef50a1c8e1---8399067903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/58743456889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/zadaguxitidizozesabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/bezavumikusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/77341882819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607483707ee55---sesojavakago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/biforomavuworowugitotekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok982q4ue02a967vc3e60fl8s3/37944072944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e889671dfe---wurawixidagixoruwilimeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79347c5dd78a83a1b69059bbc82a47fe/51998302796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rachelrom.com/rescontent/file/kojufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4c7e1f6b4a25a9d12b36da1f6fb25a/57637263028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/4612253220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/wovukiduvisabazetoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e731d1d2c6d473ecb22c7212d3d00f/ritijavegikofumetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210605_F13CB3CF401B36B7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210502155505_599254084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/60199337195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b3e40d045---36661742134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=al+quran+untuk+ms+word+2007PDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB5 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 3c7649ef97e46152e49b1d4260a470e059b61da9a5673ba4d2cd26672c578007
font_02_sfnt_off00012b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B21 10880 bytes
SHA-256: ba61a6b11936d1e785f9fc410f478e5c212a1586d43dfdcc8231db13125138e8