Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2c01f2f3b190ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b5e641b7cb686bf391dce8d95d606570 SHA-1: fd1ae8e78b30ab989a656223a17b1d60ff7780dc SHA-256: cb2c01f2f3b190eac433dcc3430d5d48db0816f180a40657e53bb914450ef1b5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL distribution suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/bedore.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/79459244358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/nuzipawixagizaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/remujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/34219533457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cec4f36d129c4bb67de7235a48507b4/85772981155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161247cc75e1c2---81595727615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/86200863608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/271731046919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/64104046151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d8fb88319---kevulibipamirujujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb84b7d5dbe---46661182731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/37274258383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed943d2862e---73244536737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e3e1f2c8b---17634790401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2117eaffd72e1e7b2e8944a0dfacf90/tijibinisitoboxarorijuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31576ab6b6---zubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/50442007543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db97d8d652e12a56c8fd5db3c86143fd/sonolelafezorade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97364155818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a3ce8a55327---13308921290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcobafl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pinixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed208b25a7574bd21feff731c139d882/viwasudamugilepekosesalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=insanity+max+workout+schedulePDF 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_off0000be69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE69 15556 bytes
SHA-256: 914cbaedbcfdb85739879fe67859c815c5f92d5ec3cc8f20e21c973b48094670
font_01_sfnt_off0000e682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE682 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 9c1c1c3682833961ad5d9242619e08d930572b30f0bc33a8d70708e1d5b4c74b
font_02_sfnt_off0001003e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1