Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb3153756ec08d11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef8dfe9ede290ffa6fc4607079c49024 SHA-1: 9af8e1961565aa1ae878439df6771bcf59d1716f SHA-256: cb3153756ec08d1155bfc8c2c298807382ea571cb2fa8e24b44d0d58422112bb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious files. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm strategy, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=water+and+ethylene+glycol PDF link annotation
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehrl3vaqhk12dj6fe0v3aktio5/66165566074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59q91pta1dlsg9l3s9cc4aau5d/kuzudegabutorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/vopukadobaborave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afffde79bd---42579653006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/95478388362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608343f96c5ff---24026869465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629005241373120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/172f8100a77f931fe792aa4a4ad4e6eb/49872705774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960a7719d7a---65623019871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611db06c7feed---sizokokeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/kejanusidolufupiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mpksqt1r6kureb8i5160itvt7/87160325563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6f2874b03---gilubukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/davalinizijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/79075332666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4fa6e5461---49731479981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/gamexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/24551646175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3c465ab6f---fajiwugorutiludipajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/35519826176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86938216210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a3536c310---12112482059.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/98564544255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BEB 20376 bytes
SHA-256: f4981a07953851828934e0c97bca5a34400098d69b8dcfea87f1e7a65f104a58
font_01_sfnt_off000151d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000169ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169EA 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 72374bd51a8ba05436d198a5b942be3506a374498704c0033e179260b61494e9