Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb19ab8b38cd2246…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: beb5a6bb4e4115cc219b7675eac26c57 SHA-1: 0dc968357e0b0aba509da6d94e2882549e423839 SHA-256: cb19ab8b38cd22460ce9be6b15230481de00ffe2af85eb31a1b70ed3a49313c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://marktoby.com/akram/know_news/admin/userfiles/file/tuzemukefilazate.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/87154910984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905_052921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/53278055767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/87258671036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armature.ir/cache/fck_files/file/71008858222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/nupiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d34da18b82924570cd98a77356d9187f/46985061593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/pakewotugavadakibafaxanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/sujabemejafabixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1aea9574fc327ff05c0091bfedff6d/gosuzazuwolululuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marikitaberbagi.com/userfiles/file/70241635328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/73994616753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/34536847844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talesma.com/E/file/31992711523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/gugagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drtamerturan.com/file/25318423217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexudozozudezapalamuvorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613342de57ae1---61045754076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradegateindia.com/userfiles/file/sebiwexutijafunosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065bb81680---31324597634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/33700105404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc3b09d06b---sefanevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles/file/47315945534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=icons+on+android+home+screenPDF 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_off0000dd63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57A 10444 bytes
SHA-256: d01726ecc7d560741963ec8300cba21f566dbf90d43a6efa331195ab3ab223f4
font_02_sfnt_off00010cea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEA 17672 bytes
SHA-256: fc430f7b14dd5ec39d092beba32aee7c0616be78487dd61d270556a861ff67fd