Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cab0f39da9483e36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-25 18:51:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 289116e6158f39d361f915af1a8ffb5b SHA-1: 0e4d8cff8fdea2d1987b63129bf5d25ea12b0e56 SHA-256: cab0f39da9483e36cbb76f8f01a849b8e148fb53a01c3e196c134542f907358e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of an attempt to deliver a malicious payload or phish for credentials.

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 https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60bd629f1696a.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/dowusideroxokapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6g7i8d18r8gg0ip8udi5pi0tf1/ramuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/89139423318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ec44a0af0---nipuvixinimizosisugotere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be617db93f092383fc5b51124e0c7320/80238609367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9b58ll70gt381lvftim96pt11/1135262553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/47839660012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1ljpm4ab6b8rc4qud3boi5pom/14131235821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d243b51076---1205004915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/mifogixivelaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d5b713975---lirowokixura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_69C8A23BFE5AAC55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097775d6f923---vuxipewagebadopafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5d44d167a22f7b1cfea92023f7f7b14/zizutobosoletuterezodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bereanbaptistashton.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8668e480cca1e897b6add33210fc6/File/98837870145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ood7imse0qotfd4h1ieokde6/17043277586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9bcb3938c---36981752900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/14797679345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a3fe46cf6675db0e7aa44d65f99382/79855531954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6k52dfi7rpve8h9kai9pi68oo/wawakurizixibavupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/42655418052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/kopapofalobawiwexikixusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c76a67f6312a648a9e7a613d51a5c94/53632902507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=como+baixar+arquivo+pdf+do+passei+diretoPDF 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_off0000e4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F1 19788 bytes
SHA-256: b4fc77c0d788aa14adf41cc9566181dc6fd905f9a1adc51d1496c074d8371f3f
font_01_sfnt_off00011758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11758 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F6F 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 570e41587b3dbc0a3d979d728f137968dfd6fa2691855703f39a07d0775e0c50