Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cab55d21c069eda2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b0670b66a52d12da1fbb96c166749146 SHA-1: e0e011531a1a887d070052cb12dc26ac0c4f4978 SHA-256: cab55d21c069eda22d1b07328478c3b50b85343444eb31541ee0e128741ca6c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, with URLs suggesting a lure for free software downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5cfe85bf5---buvaduzut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/posuxumotululuzaxetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf1d5d494a---77825317216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/99345518707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/ranuvirasinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf836d90f0---felifetuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/ligugememiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5i3g882huin7igpht4eh43vf3/98059667001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/80198274681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad57617da4---jekizirinivubutusotumaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a695645b89d---38477923297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c740b68a74---nudabatitigofipojefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30567087cedf6fbeb83fa3b9cff02c1/fowitidutejujetimer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fqdfja59slgu297ksnj6bh2j6/ximidugopanofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/wuredisufapufebonikixagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831a6f69842---41344188767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ed56bd4d28fb7449321da9cf4b2a00/13698200638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prattsofdouds.com/clients/d/d8/d85aab9f4bcbae69c8358f7a9990a0b1/File/29622104324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/21696522144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ae47b7da4---70616933822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/kufetumuxebinigikojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20a31c78091d381cbb4a4bdb21d7e1e/miroruxevanuxiwiwifizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6da9e7b91a3ad7fe1c2d6b7082475e/93666679519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/27911347626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39dde25c491cbcdee57f46fbe807dc1/378612279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+photoshop+cc+2020PDF 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_off0000f39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39D 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 572122ffa75fba7e212f657951fb010bcc882cfacd4322157f8076ddc333c5d6
font_01_sfnt_off0001224c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A63 10824 bytes
SHA-256: b427aabcbdce353f6a0f68c035879aecc09c03d24adf143ce5aadfbd3bde20be