Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb0d9ccb59370bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 45eab8a624aa6f84e1f73f397cf53305 SHA-1: 7679212b901444c7c4c0d40ebf4bee781744b089 SHA-256: cb0d9ccb59370bf09bcb8926833ac9ea85ab1af7854ae0232d8e46b7a7fdbd0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to a malicious payload or phishing page. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+grow+dahlias+in+pots PDF link annotation
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9b1fa181d---34179615465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2svo8rp3nfjs9toper58g0p7l0/xamuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/8339120051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c65269472---vasemadifuparinomowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2f6b9da78---wemurupedireduribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c548e944d---2130868031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df102a9e71fa2adcd4798991df7c8ea7/53863278476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2026afec703ae184ccb962a19739a64/gutaketoroledalobededo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/48601431680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7bf7be897---60121926279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/mopasuvotaweviwukigidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mumosizevexaniwozeweguxog1623479229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4807ea334e936c7c8a80cd8f66a923f6/giworig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/8815441094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/kesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed2425372f77bb8ed53a380da5c96ef/89376533893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794fa543f30---70036236057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6540e65996---40185965870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/narareralufajijexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f24d848fa---fosapotukikudamimopego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0uobnsps5i1gpsgurcdf7u83/30928750489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c2f9ad39e9a01b108251b3d7b9265e/51667952355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/29504695507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/popezesomixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6385c42ff1e161e6cfc47062b5d364/84938954215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608742429d9fc---468027700.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_off0000ed72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10584 20220 bytes
SHA-256: 91e5a82f31e90d533c62a9f03596dddef95d06b6f06ee22b32291645c71c62fd
font_02_sfnt_off0001357b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1357B 10616 bytes
SHA-256: b83b22ed6c82fd119b8e00aca0dd6e6e632e75ef76c19925b092ec8f8d0b58f2