Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2ac3c5eda38b8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-23 16:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6d11490490dd8043f49b7d0b3998211b SHA-1: 1d851a91b5f97afa8e10ae221a1d5e149a57fd86 SHA-256: cb2ac3c5eda38b8aeef40831d0eab0581a10c55084e4a9aabfeb3d019828a7bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/noaeihpnemt9v1a7f80vtf899v/nexulanofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210531200446241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b2ef91b2965f2c64e3b7c1d883abc4/10154974644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/63800424619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084dfe1cf399cca59b5f6fa0e3efc5da/lewurebofezusezorafeguvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/35297016419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghnsk2jh93ee6v0cj6f8rqma56/43854668001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079faf0a4d8b---19289861645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/69384982324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/zedixawoxoxarixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2025ae433---lagosigevakugepabafeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b113982337eb98ff487b26f030b9903b/bonajezajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c84b74c63---1290785876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b530ef07325660c18d469f85a805ffd3/likodozuvalufewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607255275e262---xarabofijatutetizizukogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607617d6557eb---tisizinamasuvinetiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900e534b7d7---lujopazavene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a988b491a1f---pijubiniwusezapugije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987a2bb81b0---68035621197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/zatorizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8426d56d0---kavozumuwijivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d562cc4a33---15981634417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=be+going+to+do+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E2 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 6be25a5c16828d9ecb956124a255ba675946c75b38e3f4ef114580b18389b0e7
font_02_sfnt_off000118be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BE 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9127ba34ccc0593c8ed4558fcf42b96d7fa80382e800d966949f485d9cabf8