Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cab006950ef8cbc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:11:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e7085c9394bb79db6abc6a9dab2f3c79 SHA-1: f85d1ad65ce2daab41d7aca2bd879508949460c1 SHA-256: cab006950ef8cbc6855be6cebd6221175a10153b3f3dc799f939d4b32d6e4578
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate a 'link farm' pattern, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to other malicious or suspicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/55043994333.pdf
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/nedatase.pdf
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/67461399784.pdf
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/67013979071.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc43d966bde4b1bbef89b867d2a295ce/96249533780.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn12n3qd4nn6tg2mpiridmn141/zedofitakunipesaguzili.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icu48g45igc3ffpoevdn74eegh/sulubadolalufinu.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad4543a738---37934545213.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3mgr7omppdiiv8nhjshir5tk2/11917157127.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcd8402f68---57998031837.pdf
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821beed5f68---38786997790.pdf
    • https://genericdiabeticteststrips.com/userfiles/files/rilekisutatolajidi.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9dbc126869ab9e1c21ee9fe2354565d/43109515020.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210628160956801.pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0aa1c6ee3e---15493925533.pdf
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aef105phlsv2f4ua7r36593t7/farinizunufisonosuwapusuv.pdf
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998ebce7062---tazat.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14a25ef9d1---minuwo.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v28phd1ubndeecle6h0as7q21/wotozukozevu.pdf
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/81371917904.pdf
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdb21d4691---45124717758.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=time+speed+test
    • 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_off0000e5d4.bin
b403d741cdd38651221e1d5474696f96127d1bd403afb27900ee06369e0096a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 16640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110f6.bin
84354d850c42cfd4c0d0a041db74d8f901a37c350a09fc019f3626f2f357c03a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F6 9984 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012717.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12717 16792 bytes