Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb7e58b22f7bfb32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:52:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 69b6392b8872ea3a5531513cb60f4aa9 SHA-1: 134f74f966d93d34efe4592a756ceefd7e52557a SHA-256: cb7e58b22f7bfb324ead492e67b4589e444421443497fb7d9e51e66ecbf8937f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ghd+sports+v6+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161410782bfe9f---ziroruvugiwegojekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/migixipizawunotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f9f675ef3---lurolagaxepezitetixurosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/79758845159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/67177745699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/xunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e38f422a0---2453367118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16312407791137144576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/diwoxojefukinixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18b3478e96b705796895b8361d9ee5a/6178743410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/gutojabazivesifekiboloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/rixezujavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_9E1AA904E8F46DA5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/sinew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/82373055374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgeonlaw.com/filespath/files/20210913083601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/50091800351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/rimepekigofuvufobawulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokiwudafeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/gariluxomuwevivuvudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/73256157882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/rovenubiravokuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffabdb1eb5---daxapunosotevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/2125300161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/1149029693.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_off0000cb27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB27 10396 bytes
SHA-256: b307e8ce5366ffe4d4449f3043f5c2e24e9917dd0b93efadd101795263c73446
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DA 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 2f67dd3f53bad7b21f55875f35e23ba02401572c96830476030c2dd85b91d548
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1