Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cab3c6b4444e7396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:01:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b02e76288ed40d170dd60c76c9483629 SHA-1: a68f1bbad6c5e4a2089f087d037aef3ce3ba4992 SHA-256: cab3c6b4444e7396d7be2dfdcc76090d203ca1fec44f2ed6c99ca123a01c8972
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate a link farm on disposable hosting and a compromised CMS upload, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hansikasuga+tamil+novels+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bae653fd2---53175727572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/53972958048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/97480994819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somajerawupevupelanak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec06350d52---45521241029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/fifonunizoduwitopigipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23739517883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/7055397017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58260110538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1ca91d70e---86534042996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/27195868975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338f478a7f5---polasirijumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackyz7automotive.com/js/upload/files/zukirupajepije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3427236337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/xizuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/71430245389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents/files/6529278506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/xefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7149992347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/28208087420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hr0h4o86vnq2f95o6nv4uo8g1/ruselot.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_off0000e411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE411 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 91a5ac3a0b1c02c1582bd53d520b18e8466803bbed3ce06c5da2c17d8a9686f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFC 18640 bytes
SHA-256: fbee4182d12e91359cfb580979bfd0404a43dcbb9874b2bfff0eba01cd3eab16
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1