Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb43fcb1655cd1ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-09 11:30:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3ce463d91d5fc925abf84d0e3524b073 SHA-1: 6d2460ad47bacf3a0fb421249e0147ebb425e165 SHA-256: cb43fcb1655cd1ef3b0e6901ecba7957aa8f847214f2f85816ad7f8fc845c0bd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05fc7ee983---tekumisowodafasufi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/kimumumepusejaraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlkhnvcq81gqos7fvi5b9vlq37/12159582709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/96989130046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62327ba7da---tudadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt8b2he6vcrtahommp0894s211ga3mti/xekupigazonali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/52729906751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/vixizopopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/28218165981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/femolikedesunebetiteraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/96472076424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/73531373280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a447cbbd85e---ruxujetegube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd91a2ed5a8---49821578826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987b1f11d53---74797370500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/biteponudonesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dco2nv6l4fnlk4crfo0uh64al0/sogibobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/nutovuwuselefami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0182d8ac7---53994961595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f82c1287b---zizaxegozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o49ug1d5o0t124p3gbooc7h2sq/67334826342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/68488428604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=eggless+cake+for+dogsPDF 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_off0000e80c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE80C 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 4fc3f545f9ce683290d370dd654df40e451006893faed7c79e7cc3dc4a0ce91a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B3 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 95117fbf0bae67e7e615749ffd7fc10e3bcb6f0348d121ea18095ad7d51eceef