Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2cd864798ed52e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:22:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 85ffccb4b7bc618194f1b5059cdc55df SHA-1: 794e2e324a0e505ea23dd7c4798e1259d04c23f1 SHA-256: cb2cd864798ed52e8d62aac9251c90bc9d8e145de87687b2a99d6e6240c299e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users through malicious links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e02fc154fc70fe337b53c4c48ebd7b/89515395710.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30359bf52d1281c23dca9f01558ae9f4/rezelejolilulobizoxosaka.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392aog71vebcv7fp0vv34kvrcu/towefame.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e1a6c58aa---92457119232.pdf
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/54692063160.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609831fe8581d---43163790661.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607400e0f18d6---bevuxivunezi.pdf
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/wupimemukixemuta.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ade644abc---13485304182.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed059c3a76---fimokokevukaliru.pdf
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/38077462095.pdf
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/sanokipasumavezotifigop.pdf
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/51141649398.pdf
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/tajitexotarotefezitani.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9f61a335e68ae7d846e29b81286d1de/94001425329.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607016cf787d4---bedugepapamu.pdf
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/12362192019.pdf
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a994a348893---30386245053.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7b4678066a78083c839eed7f0b2689/xiwarejikesiluna.pdf
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/43633089100.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d408ac1ab7aa591a26d636ad9f3c8603/91356938858.pdf
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///31460347720.pdf
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/76962687581.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=is+the+sun+older+than+earth
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebc4.bin
cd1f30e5ea922df859a6ba81b862f5cd023f996d643199437e52abe7a3955970
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC4 17068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011850.bin
bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11850 16252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e31.bin
ad778b7f28afd9b535ef9310d7728cfb81cf2fc1fd32b35f36e423b668205da4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E31 10304 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014564.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14564 16792 bytes