Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb38eb5201d28589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 03:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 189163e34f3d1b9f1921a1a8ff5e4bf1 SHA-1: 132f170ac835a2e5b35ddc7014698c9ad4bb8971 SHA-256: cb38eb5201d28589a5f8e0e0dc7927b7b00f96e5af9f9a4f09ddabe6c1483036
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, with the PDF being detected as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple compromised upload links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/4635471268.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/kawinekinoforexiretowozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/lonemanuvokisutoxawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908669d7b8b---xodaginevijenitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc8fc7c41f---guxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/nusesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c008b885cae---sipovagabefulosupatovibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/51525505022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0s2dvm80gc3su7r8l2422r3fnv/refumedikikanetewase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafajerido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/nejipelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/46907511429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qor19q2gbeu78dntmld0qbc8rk/18679931608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/91884501676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732dc6dd611---44487467929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/78964143838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295df118bdf7a94c96aa067f4edaf33c/jobujawisinomudopuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/27845470717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb8503d5f2---19691356924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/tesutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/92421090597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/gezogixurutami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/89371512260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e74c2aa9ce---suvudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+build+a+training+planPDF 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_off000106e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E3 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 84efd7dffa7f6e5c47886beddbb6bbc41c5ba813ec1eab1c96dd4f7e5fc0d175
font_01_sfnt_off00013494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13494 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 617c926efc69ed31ac51b775f8d2a2481c211c012001990b4a2636299a8c695b
font_02_sfnt_off00014c5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1