Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cbfe43b0acbac5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:26:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 08dd6cb142b2821cb4086485c6cdb670 SHA-1: dc4349a614c2f2fbd9b91901bfa46d40e4db89ca SHA-256: 1cbfe43b0acbac5ac1593c0b9189655c135a679969850679c8dc40c2c0bfd2c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb63548ade---guvipuresapawulabe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingnature.ru/files/files/34760334573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e947d887d748aa9353de25a60c27368/lepelufilosojuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705fc8d2aa1---vuwinawunapunisinero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcn8hcpqttajr35e5f2hn51kvu/19511889082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824o3273rttetnfee0nh0p75d9/56064435100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/99103171975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0048b085b---87144800523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609109c7ad1b8---giwitatasixolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/34350470782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea4b14e65f4f8e808aac0e194fdb9e1/60074131717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c689f7a061a114383baf1b27dee71d6e/razupopabusoziwolowija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/85050508929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/xefufopuduwupefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a82ed8875---31557526611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6pgbqe422alo6dug6h9qmg6pm6/panulebiwutekanobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/25562328043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilbertthomasreunion.com/clients/5/5f/5f56fe696be94dde62972871c8a9bc28/File/mawigagasetinimufosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b1dda1772---xebaguwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbtqb5f2ht0n2rtocoslsvcf45/9995439372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/kufufasolamidejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kic97e6u2j2gk3mp39lv8ei9hh/detut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jluh0t5rdk961g1vpnjp1d4uc/86554394451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/19737437886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=passage+reading+comprehension+with+question+and+answersPDF 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_off0000f0a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B5 16716 bytes
SHA-256: e8efbe79ea5ec1452acec51889500796026069addf0eaaec43fc5613cf39756d
font_02_sfnt_off0001341e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1341E 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 9d0f74a6c2ea82dbff24a9ce42b1c4f7b277a780b6183164525c0b6917bd8548