Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb6e91fa1b8dcbc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7b3e56e0053dedf7b38a86ab04ddae46 SHA-1: 824088c25dc41a8b6ff7e0541dd4774d714f5649 SHA-256: cb6e91fa1b8dcbc31ef07e92c654a0e92a7e014dbcc83d57c8013d8de8179fc4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a likely attempt to host and distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722bb344d0c---7977034522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28176764041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6956143243---dakupikipivefaliwamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutovifakonefine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/30667197017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/39485386067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a81b72e2bdf3e67d901543e3642e6a28/remoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd66d049a88---75518521326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/bovakatipijokezoxuleliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/patupefokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984414144e8---92548873721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a64aa9d764fbe029d97f01fa300610b3/76030583408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/8187742395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/64931629040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doorsatyrau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rololumesagagevojojopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxuzagusozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5247e15f2d---56531278313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cf602befe---deranemubimowozirufivatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconltd.pl/cache/file/52479247976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhb0n3vguuj9lguobonhu29r65/wemabemakanipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/10170928644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/dunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1335576812---52350609410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pharmacology+and+toxicology+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29C 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4e541d726882ec8bc3e6888069484c6de3e2778db4dd7b654f959a41d356f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC12 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 4e3c799529f833f0b9424fa97670c05c121f115ded6ae7cd797d7ef254e05c82
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1