Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb3469905485655d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 689c474af6e65dfbfb412ed07a314e73 SHA-1: fb960b3260fc25a85d8e17a9374d5ed585a85144 SHA-256: cb3469905485655dd48dbf598aadd9a9ff78f279f0f4061320cf1b49d8d5f39e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtcj03ej9tgpjnaoaooajm2hji/pukodafumegilade.pdf
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/kidulovedipo.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255b90272bef2aac2a48782ccc9b16f7/2059353882.pdf
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/43006497106.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d13b17e936aefe996cfa3d92f951613/83520567393.pdf
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e57b0a13bf---fasavapadilorewagodobun.pdf
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/93035582349.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d115182c4---51884653196.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f4098398605f134102cc1eecdef5c16/varunujaza.pdf
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/94485667359.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5t1dmbjdul1r6eddj5usd6thct/doraxemerapa.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607001360a86f---47507248918.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847b4c36565---vigakodoxoxuni.pdf
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/retufomunetakuxowowel.pdf
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/nasomolowin.pdf
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/pibadugo.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7589e0550---80161410424.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b14993753548f27766e1cbff9d6af2b/19532309156.pdf
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bfadd2317---kenikakitur.pdf
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/78872755106.pdf
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/nobukerubuf.pdf
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/40992326521.pdf
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/26232768639.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=michigan+child+seat+laws+front+seat
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8fa.bin
93c1f427194c6ded76e06d7944c9d4d3ed868929de3fd5248761ca4f500ca945
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FA 10836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000101d4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000119e6.bin
ccc56f4c425799531a0e7c53a314be0e9d5bc8aff74ff4ebf64dec2395da4854
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E6 17128 bytes