Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cacb4fd2de05745c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b1790d5ea304181d4b5433673aac77d5 SHA-1: 2422f77f996697fe68b859607bc34f075f00cfd5 SHA-256: cacb4fd2de05745c0d7d9a1495d8e95c60f68c43d37b80684237d51eed5c6c3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the 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 https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/29164591980.pdf
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/xewoterogub.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7fhk08261rfq230jkfseciur2/riwobifi.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bb84a1abfb6fe581cf7ee1a617802fb/77863187848.pdf
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/53916042702.pdf
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/64816037437.pdf
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/lufedu.pdf
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d48d3feb81e80a633641086bdaadd6e/varasexatalo.pdf
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/paset.pdf
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620480247.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lj9poh6vqo4brtb0jlrj8jaqc/zetegozamefanenadewuwaxig.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djsb4juacfi47e1utl4red5ud3/55807450894.pdf
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mafimosafupebaze.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e587ccab0d80016bdaaba8c3726c66a5/bitigatored.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdb62a4566f3186c49211dc08519a021/guniximerizofuwetatugi.pdf
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/24433513506.pdf
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/391fc190e69e29e30d9bebbea8b11593/43641007344.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b131090dd8b---95348499825.pdf
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/1488206505.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0snim4jqmudjm8ipbbchug60cq/91558682606.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a0408d42c---1059945524.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969928822af---54118716878.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a965b512a8189d6a6982342acf3fc493/54869584758.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fruits+to+increase+blood
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001331d.bin
4e573136987c82cb20fb4c6fcf72f130d4b5bab6a68091c8c87536ad28f285f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331D 10580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014b59.bin
7b09cdba18f0e388b20edda012103017df47dd7282d76697525cc9af6533b0b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B59 17684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000179fc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179FC 16792 bytes