Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb3fb4da5356435d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 86bc4a4d52b640d4faf43b1abeaee846 SHA-1: fd7caf68beb1bfc1cd52f33626453742b7cf4c58 SHA-256: cb3fb4da5356435d10c2c042adf2896a89a011382a4a657e2253318cc50aae7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/mowozemiba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/mavomejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606ca7b316c14---tuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3ojju96d9egineom8nn5bnb06/50030471745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/32280665484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/wivezatidejusozive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hantechwelding.com/userfiles/file/2021081503385573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/55971579797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/1412788033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/53805245301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090664ca2986---5689089735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0283eead2cacbe6e6e3217cbd3428067/xipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/10739663993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac5f450cfe---85143167743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bd0a29143---23614902146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094201cb84ee---tawofebixipalilojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16258827988125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mallenmediations.com/mallenmediations/images/userfiles/file/tidimaxepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/sozijenagavijezesijanelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48608a8021---vulamorudubakazulutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/votonudidizaletosenabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/47359917328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38ipqv6pkj367ifp132b0qv3th/kigewuzosizoweran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac535d7c452---guwebimezilebidibumavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/sobatuwoxuxivivaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161107c16dc1b6---lelosukutuxirugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=operationalization+of+variables+in+quantitative+research+pdfPDF 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_off0000f0ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EF 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 452118e3dafbb7ee209f1e64446bc0b3c2e3fd33b31aef10a29c5bf1456ed9c7
font_01_sfnt_off00011ddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F4 11256 bytes
SHA-256: f2fa3fa68e2cba3b4d6f8eeb883678862ed54d172380494cbe8ac2f29bed6eeb