Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb7ff0737d4bcd47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 05:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: e64b2ca7934eb5759d38b713b85f8bc0 SHA-1: 2b2fc19f18909df836e2fd5ffb1a8ddef7fc7831 SHA-256: cb7ff0737d4bcd4752d371dc3c3826dafff796c1edc78da93dfa348677351738
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm designed to funnel users to malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca146f2456ead404e1fe03d2b5ba33d4/90992235572.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/nuresirobozozimisodidopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/41389373527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/57749055249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/75606518375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210706150322_lkg4gz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olj0rd5vlco3297mp7m79ncf2g/wirivenexuwijera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f1d01fe3e---fobasoxemefukobovakejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6fe5938ee1bb3807edc8a2fd700a7da/10432222514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/22358269569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzimaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4463275ad9e39ebab0ae7e825ff62201/57049896608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/76297340416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7l9mjgt040ih6eshlktgq94h2/57988434664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/jilasirimoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/xelonodafanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3431aa54f90fe7bf47ea4b0e9b3d5c4f/88849532378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca31b63995---fasupefitikadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maide3kf8rhul0192vup1u8g27/potijofexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_673CFFD50F8C7E7F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce0fcc74a9---xijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/gituvuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc77bfd98b3---80872173911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a11e6a766f---jutomesumijasimovenatinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=my+subwoofer+is+not+connecting+to+soundbar+samsungPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A5 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 5f26429cf1bf001f820574bf5cdc9bda5d43cd7b0800fed2bbc6fbc490c4ff0c
font_01_sfnt_off000121c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C3 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 5e9631c82763cc6b0d88381803a21307ab5a79dfd018e16c84a8eade7bfbefd9
font_02_sfnt_off00013be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BE1 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 45961647de57ae2180be900e49094fed2ad50d8a261136fe63df9a332703a1f0
font_03_sfnt_off00015784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15784 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1