Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb11395eb89316d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:44:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ce93ff781c6ff47862245fd970b383b6 SHA-1: 3bc5375160cef1507e00359209097471df23797e SHA-256: cb11395eb89316d689b78268be3fd9c41941eaa3eba784b79fd29318f5c544c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://nctpa.biz/clients/5/51/51e593b678cc4707ea5ff7b662bcbdb9/File/vakoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/1556280963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b545c6b00aaca02af575f4f81df395/piviwivozunotivasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58185389471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e63d0f42783795414af687a985b5bf/77132951591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rykatd.com/files/tavuruvifusasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a53cf6d187c689fdc324490b532dc7/maxomavukazijutoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-7/file/42253132241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c9f1e3da4---46830170269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40faa867a46d8b10093116e06e6a6446/belariwizomutiwetoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/bigixekomufumatabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_33387B05C62DE348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lzokxjcrti5um.com/upload/fckeditor/file/46262222600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrjok.com/uploadfile/file/keferudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6bf45607a---57089381811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f61ae29e5a1981936330838ade661c23/91467579831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/90582031799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc70883b0e38f0923976e5ca6225cf8d/65822497136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/75413406951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a42183e0b4a19c0bc70ff4e0be67905/88590846636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a5123a2fe---96448184904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvpv655ksmni17rmivoh2tutr1/99259352473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703e6bdba90---bowifowaketafubafoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/61916286944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=are+french+beans+legumesPDF 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_off0000d4e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E0 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 403a75c735a0838e8041d7795414b9a181c12c08e6f6e0698a5923e503712cb6
font_01_sfnt_off000102d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D9 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 3c132e280419c34e8e37bdbed09840dfc6359b8068e63afca862cdb28207dd3e
font_02_sfnt_off00011b32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1