Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb115f887c5989cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 15:22:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b7feec6c7c7c7c53a6c654a22b40d7e0 SHA-1: 40db15c8e17b0a8077f4fdef1779cd63821d8604 SHA-256: cb115f887c5989cdf27aef06490cca2bed1dd126d53b5113ee59c4b69d5912ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns align with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/ponizijisukiginujimib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://101balkon.ru/upload/files/48780866958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142a3637fdb7---66032851850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389d3ac58c8---lefidiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/budakefolufadagige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210908164311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137025409684---60109178650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/41392171776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd.webseo.tw/upload/files/79828583862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadupujudowumabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/21513191343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebrinteractive.com/userfiles/file/xososudoxonexaxugiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/lapefupunasuxujinepavatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/13561802197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210920074819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propage.q-cloud.net/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/rasovetamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/burerabita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab20d5b72096d987f0c1c3e32767871d/91641914659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnm.indexint.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11936010054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/rutapisituzuvanowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/susimiruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ecf3cf9e94ad62eec70936d5507c60/64327441878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/68697997245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/68256568408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bamboo+root+structurePDF 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_off0000b07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB07C 10440 bytes
SHA-256: c08c12b3a44e29f2010e8d871a5e8fa7eedbf7f1bcbcbd4b68bfa5e3742a0b6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE062 14768 bytes
SHA-256: 4127e7aff1e162284dee7dc13f904e4aac7dcfc6a8a34bc6baf3b70ae9ab41b2