Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb08d0106bcb6166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 02:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8a330d2e27251f5b2241b3b89166f3ad SHA-1: dea784bd32f2a358a33db82a1f4bc50b5f14c178 SHA-256: cb08d0106bcb6166afb7bc1b144c7e5237211e6b721c182eea9cad7277e62ec7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, such as http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebf84393fa790555106fa5d0f06b91b/paxibado.pdf, are likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cvmglpkg13e1okebpsre24k56/55420244841.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dde82f1bc---42662608066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/66147345583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/91973653468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2b693b1a7---polanapuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebf84393fa790555106fa5d0f06b91b/paxibado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0idgc5sp7b7b3bpnffhfafrsi5/zudenerojen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/15792968078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/9503953786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/77643789251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/47621895576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8b14b2b90a---kenalipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36430812883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1932d68792406bb03bf2cd6e1f168a54/45061550657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/purekafavoxatimabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/84113823852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/veziketubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/18935757190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/nawapigegubilebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/65797069567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9ffab5417cef32db147af10edba146/sabisojorusakufovebane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/99093901966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/84768058018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a29c0df7b477f9394fec4e984b7923/sudife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=capitalization+and+punctuation+checkerPDF 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_off0000c9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EF 10728 bytes
SHA-256: d39a0bc8722428f1e5f2bfe73e6de71ac8cd10a13b465d0e206ab08b81da1f5c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA86 16352 bytes
SHA-256: aaf403c1589dd3075db1c27f1c26d826a53bb311569cf7a07fb5804c5e6a99b5