Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cbbe40562e5af91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-05 17:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 48af3ae0663001e131409d8f05f174b8 SHA-1: cc6d117afc1a5959cde0ea90f3123daad8a98c4c SHA-256: 8cbbe40562e5af91216dc28a9d934f3cc8dfd8111d6897eec116d403de2f6ebc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure victims to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=scholarship+thank+you+letter+sample PDF link annotation
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/miporumojeraxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/52797170966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/12987713353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc24dc3cd7e---zejegukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/25153388143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd60303d7e---57586420306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/delive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/67634554987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/27553407275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/sikunimimonomukewetuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f914799da50---gixewirujezigisonimuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9adb53fe23aaaf8ae10294f8533a348e/18909922079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e534b218415---43959566227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/kefakexori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubitanduk.com/contents//files/81559028242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/10753835240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/44917422180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/radudufafiwalafoxuvimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d95096365d---40289162376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083e1q75ib046hgnqgcd0t2517/defapivexotenojijegazexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/rinomodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/33250668547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f207cd517---sekifetomonipip.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_off0000f090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF090 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A7 11020 bytes
SHA-256: cf18728654b5f81d518c910f24f4d7706bee1f1ed883719c57bc3d059db548e0
font_02_sfnt_off00012220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12220 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 57c8e9cbc991850957f52573141b472035fad4c927a11cd45e72274e3f6e02f2

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