Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb5fbb636bc978d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d962e3db5ba4584a3f3daf04ded8ef17 SHA-1: f208fb4c345eb9350be4fd1a2c51a547f3c3f22b SHA-256: cb5fbb636bc978d35cd334b17004e99d0e42f5351bc9bf1851b73cc4ad57b228
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious external content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=your+pregnancy+week+by+week+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27873327931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/situzinulixowefigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff2fd4bd1c677c406e7f3d56bd062e3/39959217506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086807416e05---22595095365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/moxapivutikapuzomukaxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/xarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///jubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/ratewapawepufafegojupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa80083a9d---36014788747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/6624885055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hm63m62utnjriin5pljcgsvbn/80891379757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12e07c5990ad3fa047f1602d3d58ecf4/tawimedinitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents/files/11063674349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a0184730d---50613201422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///kixapekuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e74bd37668---32222176273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f3f7d9601---pasowixogipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/336d8c71cd93b39b76b98026d7f61352/guxekipakufijinisenera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05fe65f656---39860269517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/pusutorudifepuposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/zuwedolizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/xulexiropijakunufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976b4588d0c---dagunepowubegapede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/58619404051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ca6462021d9397207ab02c1b011efd/84214075261.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B9 18260 bytes
SHA-256: f9d4d8002bb13e1e6fa1127db3af58eb4fb51440fea935d9b8a16071a95e773d
font_02_sfnt_off000116ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116AD 10952 bytes
SHA-256: c2523f63ceecc41b711500d05ec84f3f626a63d3dac2973fca813be319ed852d
font_03_sfnt_off00012fcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCB 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 0160fa7163df3cc63190e509d7efb81194aaca1be5e31b3dd76403c76419163b