Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2c8c18055e9245…

MALICIOUS

PDF

158.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:02:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5f72027ba4b9483e56cdd848b9d13e67 SHA-1: 228b01b12b679d8bedb445673a2984b0d337a844 SHA-256: cb2c8c18055e92452460b8db62495aa3cae20043bbe839be00665051cb9a741c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to external sites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a potential for malicious redirection or hosting of further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/66350209103.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xabagesedifilafufisapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/50804545964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430233006189807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d8dc96b2de1daad49e6d7bfa154c42/tisikamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/65774861314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210609102526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aabf56080---46026098523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c4d7b2c3bf2aff4e56245d295f65eb7/84803598661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/farorunawevilobevujijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/lobomidolurifizimunibiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorizirikomuxosetusipexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0237b4191a---74383966845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/gegafedawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9f94e5bbe87524db9de91d9ed8b2a4/85020014803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/lelojajipiridesuduzupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zirebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3acb72c80---53807327929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/92627566334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826e9c2b788---lobebixurunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a439dd15fe58bafbe61d25af33f02445/44332524826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89179a5cc05afb3ba557055111d28a9f/42744626786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=advantages+of+multinational+companies+in+developing+countriesPDF 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_off00020aa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20AA9 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 81ab0e3e7d371d1ad8d209126f9539095c6e8cd39924f057ebf7bdc869111cfe
font_01_sfnt_off00022467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22467 18732 bytes
SHA-256: 2716fc7f501667515d283915a5c53523a0908497b714ecf29c3170630abdeda4
font_02_sfnt_off000254d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x254D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1