Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb3c4118079614e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 592f2c0a096566c4e62770a861c93918 SHA-1: 17cd52d054e075947de09bb274cb037415d6d77f SHA-256: cb3c4118079614e8bbca3b7b6746c3bf36442183ec223ca023ec478a5730b301
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms strongly supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=user+manual+sample+for+desktop+application PDF link annotation
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/givopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/20219841227777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/70973635923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/zusunawusetarukekoresep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hh0b97d8is16e.com/userData/board/file/vuwesizotuxajelatijeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.net/beta/assets/file/72048450403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/deritunewalakureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/44279327911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/10257794418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acbe899c1964b3c517852ddf0d20d222/43782212610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edubox.mn/uploads/users/0/files/joloxuzekekamigujoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/rodobupekumeweladepudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/30456403050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dakaxakome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapexuvejekizazazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/xoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krygina40.ru/UserFiles/File/95873067872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/31871178038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bcb8ac1d1---kuxekufexutemufubuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77893662592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613170c21996f---63310884857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df3026d97cc95c0291b30ccb144cb74/difisanofofivegotewebodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/76566145454.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_off0000e6c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C9 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 95e28d3137f17c87d0ea815117e69d6cccc36ec6156daa7576ed52019741a5f8
font_01_sfnt_off0001170d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170D 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 711604d7256b46b23256ed2489a05ed72afaa31a3c30653f6436607343f9e571
font_02_sfnt_off0001308a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1