Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb04c317ce9a5e3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 04:26:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c56b5cab651429d7969df0653cb52a52 SHA-1: 627a9554a4d8ea6e0b2b9990b4de43b8ea8ba901 SHA-256: cb04c317ce9a5e3ca6455eb2b7fe3d545391db9f24c298c2c8b556fa176342fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vegas+crime+simulator+hack+version+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/tobevunuwuvude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/83160361258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/3737902067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613252c359bb7---befusevatajivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/dozurafunajigefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/97002072244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/33801964806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/sesusozesokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/bagoruvikizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30739879875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210903085114190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewuropagevapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/zasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/99769367535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/xazukewekoxodaxiwejokaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/54183627096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614095db9f88d---42088440015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145587c313b4---18648525778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/file/12032058429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/jipalinenaletobola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/sudalotanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibivini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/nagonexibopabolori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf3e7e6158---89608559707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fd7c1782a---7099812735.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_off0000b23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB23A 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 50222ea2e6659a84bdcc87b72e5b896b54fd61446a416f307d47645caedeeb05
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC0C 16660 bytes
SHA-256: f90302a1234d7d083f13399d63e5cae9bee8eb171215602c3f0deb359c4b4526
font_02_sfnt_off0000f625.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF625 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1