Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cab82bb41d5218a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 16:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 32332991b127d5d46cdcec81668cbbc0 SHA-1: afc30cbee13fe786cfe163e3408e66573a617704 SHA-256: cab82bb41d5218a1627a50c99877133eeb3aca9c2e0234732c4f9a6720baa1fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection results point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://namlongadc.vn/uploads/news/files/47417365784.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac879dab9f---47785827880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakubovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/xosovezasinutotuvamafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f606142d38---fozibedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/wexabidorepebatagupobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e2deda87b96972758ec4e73c1aa220/69310207004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/vajasewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/72808711111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/pogalitixepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f4c8c05ac---66020365774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/74464224791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/repejavizedadudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimaguwefojepuviten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712ffdc3855---mevopojilizizojusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hthdvhfshdqk2292umdgfpbbn5/38248226371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/totolojomasavogaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcmnutsc73gtkbl8notvun9b47/64836260267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210609183843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/99803104770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k3gbpr0euj17vidutffrsfm90/63699699104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721dd83e534---58355166520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429042611621742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=unity+of+actionPDF 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_off0000f80e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80E 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 913a49d7e0d44a31e5029056e03e24e305e0212cd682104123a925b61019744d
font_01_sfnt_off00012496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12496 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAD 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 5fa9c6c027ef9433f06fa6d8ef1f8abd8097e0aaa239d627d2f1a4d329f7113f