Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 256cb7ac4d2aeba0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:50:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6e4775fe7ead55725b7fd397876e21d3 SHA-1: ae42cf00ef9e1f4db2b52a6acb833d6386a32bf9 SHA-256: 256cb7ac4d2aeba00bf29d1fe871c3519c5676b2d464d1d4a6bf0709c49e0249
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several URLs point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/gadekinuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/gojajidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/90787455524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/tamuvepavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/4940676309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tqmu8tif9ei1ljana53vr2jen/timosunizopegumovesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/bupeladizobulebonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc609260d1---zogiwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bichvan.vn/upload/files/27518939353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/60350346834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cec1ed83d2---gusixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/40679566336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb1ae6668b---8069045489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/61845107428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buqa0sjcn04udnepllqqmt4vn3/86587455761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebodafolasopuris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/pozawivemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb86d789c926b59e1b6560a83eda867f/80422244156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210625_204349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///kotedibilekimoronido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/021745522138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncreekpuppies.com/clients/8/88/88daaab1104cc9784d9cd8b59d189b35/File/gigimosazogote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drumlockingclamp.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/7406482785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/kosulajadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=bolsa+de+valores+de+el+salvador+pdfPDF 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_off0000d155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD155 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE967 21940 bytes
SHA-256: 19144b8fc4acebb906956c1b716a91bd289bbcd2d02ca62098d7962eb6bce242
font_02_sfnt_off0001211b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211B 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 16c826ef3b77ce2c62b2d188491db3008d335b275d2bdd7ec9b639488def8d4b