Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb6ca53870fe1206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bb2f8da8027ffe00c5f1dfda78ce5ed6 SHA-1: 81b11853f3acdfdf92e2d582a9b9e47074615ead SHA-256: cb6ca53870fe120684232aa7f26f8707c77005062be44dc1a520f9d46022ae49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs and embedded links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=about+kunti+in+mahabharat PDF link annotation
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rsr9atm32u93gmjqle8e9ua7d/papegaxotidafetawakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rejed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0b2bf7a8f8ae2872ff1818f0edbbb3e/69160765355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/zuwiverozodomerupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/19287256280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-zahnarztpraxis.de/upload/files/givebivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/43047689273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/difavuvimokutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2abqvc5m1iqc3pone8niu6ud6f/musisarejakikibimelupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ccea4191e9d395c4c66677a1a8f641/gujivuwafekesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2e06b00eb---zegaxovozotenabefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/merujebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14884347b77e359be0af67a8481f5511/94277198830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/94070745334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a211b2e6c63---56233858943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045f149d47c38c357ec95371b0c2c43f/95734619770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97eeefa2e---golowake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e249174a28---54121470524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dabf53a93f5---45324215844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffabf91b1bfcaa7ebe792562e8a795b3/89383744124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///larizajoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4a90dea3fa---93300171761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/94669336077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736ab089011---81316301186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/47478428121.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_off000104f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F9 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad4571cf4d9d5f6b0ce12a83bb7130b909e943b320545b9fd91b8ffdfeadc01
font_01_sfnt_off00011c12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13424 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef58a18aa2787e774e02e259f4574ff09f18b5d4de91849de41d860e7fa28f3
font_03_sfnt_off000161c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161C1 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 29fa2f2cffed8b46d59586e33217a02490ad06086291cc63fb766f7e89fc747d