Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb0be255935888af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 04:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3564a8f46016eaddf7e9ad0af549871a SHA-1: 53b1753428dce50a2a4497628ae3ca3749fca78f SHA-256: cb0be255935888af7417b1ab93d7a27582a369669aa360cb722ae372ecdb356f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not appear to directly host executable content but rather redirect to other sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15cdafcaf8f347f840506d14872ec803/63190776313.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f555e625050fc0070789aeb5b3a5d8f/wesusevarozofesiwupekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96fe89fd6---75959581564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ce836c5efb3a273b68e3d340a7561b/bofovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8adb3e08a---kobodakatutekivunusowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28b0b295a6---pitavugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a059f81ab7d---78360630103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894f4373fd7---befaripisovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nz/upload/88253621411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cff849f09b---tejivokafapekororaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njqups3ohpr6s8qksgv1lfpic5/ritumigidadelosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/47328902768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95ccd29ec9---60263129673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc84224bdae---pixawusonuzejuporimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/86072571695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d0afb9007---27181914309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/12902964981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/juzetiminodogosurilinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/60735346668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e3074ad40aca84cbf399fcff4bdc2e/zulilabeworumurifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607048a50304b---68355975867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/korokomiwuvabufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nmj43a4n99mh0s8t6cdcjbkv4/pubabebozaxusipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/mumazikedetefosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/kudamavipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=free+animated+book+powerpoint+templatePDF 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_off0000dd89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD89 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 6d197be6f8c47455b6550c5fa9d057cd77251298607ca3748b306196b1eab2a4
font_01_sfnt_off000109f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F6 10680 bytes
SHA-256: c6388dd04c3f0d64d53306c4a441aa4c54280d69086c7c5e20d167b09b567515
font_02_sfnt_off00012231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12231 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1