Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb08131f9734b8fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef2bff245c88b8dd21b17bf63dc5b5e3 SHA-1: fcb62c8e493f703889cf96ebcc8c89fff699855e SHA-256: cb08131f9734b8fb1148941e208f5ad828e7384b03d737e4531be4b3c86f8e68
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF identified by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqseba36k1arh62rbe34c50nlm/gifuzidetekekubepevowi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/30375135582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/kesekatiwasejevomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/wibederumoxofojeremefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/gefeminodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8gduqp1k1hi0ctoseq32e8691/losifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaidicattery.com/clients/f/f7/f7b4890cfba443994123e46b8078d6bd/File/kubefijufosabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd3ech6mhiru1g952nto19ad67/2477280561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202109021241288165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/20426539880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/81605622795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78b34f31a5---nivenidaguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/72645863378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/53741023723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/20821812787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4489df5367b9ee6877b72e6ec5ba76/23727692287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7qqkljvl8883sl1s8claqhrtm/detow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/babedusekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161e885d8505f52eeb65a6d2b46f5c9c/39190433540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/45118027798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef466c3c3fbdf6f5817796ec21285934/10893112496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/nijarifaxamibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=information+theory+and+coding+abramson+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/solitolidoxojokabuki.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_off0000d433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD433 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4A 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 60c9350320f61a8eec0bdee470118063daa50be4625df1e5962c51c9427cbe22
font_02_sfnt_off000105f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 17040 bytes
SHA-256: fb295b75c9ed18c552d639b55aebe42c7a277700dbc4cc5023b1bebe6c2ee556