Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb78b17f1bba2e9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:24:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: bd9f89358ea36dd3c55a5c11f5ef7f8f SHA-1: 8f0792ecf72853247bdc477d428c2fa717429c05 SHA-256: cb78b17f1bba2e9cefca4828ae05aaab6c4f387722663d0a66a3d3ec0e82446e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to various external websites. Heuristics indicate these links are often hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nunca+pares+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/67006640277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jm94b7g5shqipdabuh5rl24ecb/85524522982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/nazapowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/xinojiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2990592.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumitaxuvujate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/puxukovibenamuzibiname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mepakerijejiwejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b9cab4845---20884149027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://processwork.archerhuang.com/ConImg/files/92288853725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrastorg.com/userfiles/file/97713525365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver1979.com/upload/file/sagijeminizusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/17398113901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sassanoproperties.com/FCKeditor/file/rasozimewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/vamekira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/vewirilinevepuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/files/lejelalikapiliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luna1956.com/images/library/File/65218016749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlejia.com/uploadfile/files/20210902_224542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbhshipyard.com/userfiles/file/pevedibugonutiwalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/6a6eab8845d69cecdc88952a83e76c8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/54204189662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137603e029a9---77170377734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614272da1e6ee---50061602555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/dupedaxikijobezuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/zenitaj.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC028 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 99480ccb688a3529762f33248e8091bfe525bb9e5a188d730675a5ab7b39759b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED16 10332 bytes
SHA-256: d78f26af7086ee22d8032189c05f55c9c7301de968c93b5d33bf0af342a7c437
font_02_sfnt_off00010480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1