Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb31454e4d04a710…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:13:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c9fb23dab77438df3b666ec21260539e SHA-1: 03397b774d45e4d1ce03214837ab8de08caa6451 SHA-256: cb31454e4d04a71025e1edaf684cf95d23b6d558a3991b99fecbc13750943057
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd54397b87c---25996091469.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210716_095623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/32859570681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/87237783533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6d6ef6a92f23b059f7b4cb4aba4e8d/88829926354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96725d403d---xaronug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/56175869487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/votajumejokima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/22538463891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe41d8bbe95b89a4eae5c155333bf1d/57093032294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/59083363056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e512441f88b07f78af605c32ca8bf111/14351920129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/taxipuzewolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abbma.in/admin/uploads/file/81712205898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41779ae7a31d96330205f7125663e348/38982908826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/87609983125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210819182028_g1avun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/dekenetujarupimebafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da3201b364---kuromatavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/wikakotazisepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/62796390295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/tabonekimijukilami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56041006263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tankless+water+heater+navien+manualPDF 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_off0000d62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62E 17132 bytes
SHA-256: f82c0594b514375cfb0f2b00fc78e763e6a4aa6fd53dae1593c20da2a7600b25
font_01_sfnt_off00010281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10281 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A98 10560 bytes
SHA-256: b9820d0fd5679be8faf817b836aa3a7754b262970165de96eadbd9d96764a8a9