Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb4b900c36d75fff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:17:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 71322d06e81e1e196769b3b8a92f1877 SHA-1: 5a7246ca458141d38e06cbc5922d3cb99b327633 SHA-256: cb4b900c36d75ffff0a84ca4080c14c2dd72a2be5669dd3cd2855870b4d25ebe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ML classification strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+cell+6th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a53507f43---luwemufemamenukopatapeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/pifawofoxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925439ece98---zedewexanukezenejuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174f3e0c15---dunokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59a6511e5b2546ee412cd3449a948ef4/43760283628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/64617477023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov90t47k4r9f89jeakgmsnikam/ruzewesamaxaliwipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://improntediteatro.it/userfiles/files/bavuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciobanados.cl/upload/file/In PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/beturileda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021071305341773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/08/files/210828111952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocef1rufso3cc1u9itnm76lg8r/nafikagukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/tevusenolufabekujijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://binhchuachay.info/Images_upload/files/84126315674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608780ad878df---tozewenuwodogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210812232535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/nopepokataxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/sidixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents/files/zubobixorikimomufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/50968142407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/51157466827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/90817044890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/11507263599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a39e98d134e2b456d88f834660c55e7/xojetipegal.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_off0000c46d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC46D 10416 bytes
SHA-256: c603d6a3947781c6318b9d2d070f5ac20fb955784d8f2560586ed83ac82a69fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEA 16112 bytes
SHA-256: cdd867be8c4c412652212e4a30de74f620070981abc185f21a03aadfa8cc9d9b
font_02_sfnt_off000104f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1