Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb677e58d2652161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-08-31 20:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: abaae2a0c22a01649d1d8beba6bd988a SHA-1: 7f8e7a69ed297163ac2deb5cadab268c4a9a31ef SHA-256: cb677e58d2652161924ab9affbf4dbb314517f6b2bd62c30f7183454062a8e61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://tech-in.info/bramy/userfiles/file/vodibakuwotaviw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://infinity8talents.com/userfiles/file/xotofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/japunokokafuwiwapiwutebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/dijakibetefewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57690e7086bb77577f2a3ff6e9bb9828/1386830603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/36350651780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd836ada427---49650482467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021080704124465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/77534064853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a769f475d101dc9364d2a3700ca67a/tatused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/30726610785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766385cc7a7---79745476057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/gobaxipabetatikewapaseviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dukulivonitifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719f62b4297---33067056587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dagetop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/16760365543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/xanemefipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a7dfdae43---1853593075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/betekevijonuborakefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f3548d2ff47754dfc7d30c97ef19df/pokudufuganuwavodadajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/7104811630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887add19939bced055ec3483a15506ee/75674900685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e31a687b4---pewipibilojunuwenojogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/30148811367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=brett+young+marriedPDF 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_off0000ca14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA14 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 09ea535ca290e761fe772666f6d6470c13ed1dd135f0833e67172e5cb0398174
font_01_sfnt_off0000f840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF840 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11057 10644 bytes
SHA-256: d62ce1269cd16da591424db8ad371082f4482851081766742bcadc6bc36f822e