Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb0f4701432e6437…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 00bc1b228a22bcb0846cd42213f9629b SHA-1: bc80af7dc7538c2fb0d728a1e091fe21f3ea85a4 SHA-256: cb0f4701432e6437e6a4d4e02d33e64285a9101b93bc91d82245140c80425815
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The presence of numerous URLs pointing to compromised upload directories suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30ccm8mjsb6q83p5jfobk7p1k7/gurefafaben.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8669609f6bfa8a77adabca7628b42e1/lamakojat.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f78d92e7c---kanulirigudejisabajenaj.pdf
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/70386557257.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a410077907b992e581626d3e8f55f2/85330968392.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec60af0c947adb4c7fddcc324691e16/24748471227.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d4b23655e---poluxa.pdf
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/64727439602.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a957130088---fezunamisasa.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2cf7ee5a041e40271c3331fe4eef4b7/79499658211.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89cfc7cb23f148b3211c5e779758bdaa/50008837923.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39iuntk8pvi4o0474bjnv6tu34/gesevurekotekunikapefifo.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5ul50c7otttrik47c3mqcaj64/36365292832.pdf
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k99ib8kl0mgmb33sm39ikq6v3q/miwewesepiba.pdf
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/83854423453.pdf
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/75470430416.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607129920c10f---pazitu.pdf
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///28409739640.pdf
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91114a2fab6255299ce7ac111d591a5e/87558335643.pdf
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_D3878B06FE8055A9.pdf
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/tawamajavutate.pdf
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/15974693913.pdf
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ddee77a41---baxup.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0atog3vd2mqcdkafrje1nn879q/13059419173.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+calories+in+an+8+oz+ribeye
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f851.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF851 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011068.bin
1ad806bdcf72f0c15b77958ead253f6bd09561dbc3566819331070cf22dbbf13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11068 10892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129ab.bin
7c502cad1c2aa249493aa2251237369a5a48a5258d597b59aa2bdfb7e9bc1766
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AB 17952 bytes