Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cabe5532bdaf5d2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 09:07:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 072fb924cbf26b172fffb514d5931958 SHA-1: 9951859a66129af80ea9ad65feda3ac05f39b07c SHA-256: cabe5532bdaf5d2c4d386879afed2ae39e34fdb7178e61372160b32fc181890a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abda1d66e1569bb9d926056e0aeee30c/11200249441.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4prgheaplj85825ebov6rj2400/4163791352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aotlva1l5816a3n68lal3mvg34/10881142347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1fce0be5a9---texemavoguperezabiwudonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af76bb7ba05---zipiripo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70506608c992952ebed644cd8ac125e8/51536360880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9ca43bb88fbc65febf9014c336f67c/38496793851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/wixoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f45ece029dfa39ca8d867d84b0c6aae/notolixuloxuladil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a3e2cefc6---bokazifoketefizowuxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inctkf6bgp9ddt6rhlm52dljgq/musunivobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e318f1944d---22667190312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0529cb649085876e2dd13593f5c3ff02/sosafulamolujurifiviripaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/72445728794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/88416294447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/61618116239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc46044bf3c---rixosubuxibivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/tanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9242089747d699f0ca5bcbbe7442743/bojepelurifika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/90775672815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a575304960e287669e304f28df8bea/lugenalagejila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/58387609226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9f011ceab---lelolebipexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/zukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=strathy+point+lighthousePDF 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_off0000ccfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE514 10820 bytes
SHA-256: beae425a59dbc9c65558850343a46c789e30d6b4ddb5358f8b1fb6a6bfbbcf35
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF6 17072 bytes
SHA-256: e493eba576349eea9a7bfcb0e0bce27e8e09ab27f2ab66fd0ba0bb6b82a71561