Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb4f0c62c6837a9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-10-01 04:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6eda79216bc8caa52b164dc15dd3ac4a SHA-1: 3bcec3f39182c38ee9e42d953de0363fb9cb3b86 SHA-256: cb4f0c62c6837a9d16bfb5b726107094ad9e7b07df9345c0f1db00fd72a93106
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The primary malicious activity appears to be redirecting users to external URLs, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://thegioichuyendong.info/app/webroot/upload/files/73541731486.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/33540450389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e616fb43540af2917eebaf69d4eeeae/divivoxijebula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7583f6a17765a519bc240776af0de3f/puzotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/37812194315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5762fea8162b9f7e259eddf14c9b4d9/vibawidagutamudokowuxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8216306506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614150776f211---82416555377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/4100391950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/lodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/lefezibaguzoraledovizozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/211276f0905210ea7b8a605e38ac63eb/68203327988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1633003593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/pilituvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20211001070352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c69b98b990---71689766313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210918_020401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55523932296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/15842862210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907090157123997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22216047878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+find+deleted+files+in+androidPDF 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_off0000acc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4DE 10444 bytes
SHA-256: d0dfa0a47560f9a411ac49d3c6d5090a380a403562c374920a73042a1ba862c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000dc87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC87 16008 bytes
SHA-256: 09bab731c2843419cbe7199f7f7373965f005a9403ffc36357a3eb9f25c1d971