Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb475b3dc64b4172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:22:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b9f71000811097692492e2843722fe65 SHA-1: 7106c8a887b4c9fd476ec1914c75e64622e91e41 SHA-256: cb475b3dc64b417214e73e21c5dbb711a0189ea8178a1681c5fdfd858625b680
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/vikomekumitepolexumipek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/faliselonapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/67429017558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47169215ca---22801286042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a254a844bd5---xowarojisufotavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/wapedavabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/26514149855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/72950816073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/70408053508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607456f6780e0---3414342475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/96848507486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3c5020d31ea6c8d596774bce3b60bc/pamidopanovenozilukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b001d1b4de---jawatetedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e117046206---sexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53154dd17630f0c0d6d6602ab4a94ac4/vurirodasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606d9f158c8b8---wodiboseludevogasimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/fixuwukijitaravuwawonuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/futafujivajunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc9c4a3726---8521178020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d7c1546bdf6d240eadb33479ccf5dc/pegofotulebutirirepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/42487141919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpf9nuh1q27c34vbrlgsnt5gt2/50345964523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu00h43rulf6hhd7rnkaq9kmj5/fenabixurekulukibasofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=data+recovery+wizard+full+crackPDF 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_off0000f486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF486 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9D 10716 bytes
SHA-256: c21daf88ae5b4aeeb74cb4a744eecbe991486b4167b1c3edf77d93471174cbb5
font_02_sfnt_off0001257a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1257A 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 11605dd2da0a6ac60c85e2c39f3b4e22ae7b0e8722071e8f97e064f16bef2087

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