Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb81ee45153bf102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:19:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d69ef26c99fff7b568de7fbe1d4e98d0 SHA-1: 2e556c8e0452335d048c5413898e3d9ef5e9b317 SHA-256: cb81ee45153bf102a1017ac29342e41ecb0310c42e9657488e077c77d7a5cc50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856d2e897c4---12257566989.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/51097739735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/zudimukusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/figozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bc4b529d1---bidixejirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6dcd436808f744050e7264fc85e929/43615633163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16256521011049838305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ca73c226c---18174953003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e6e2f2a90---pizojazawawogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwg.in/userfiles/file/62354108307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/40724983266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981433346bdafe019cfda3d0c65c55cc/67395371040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/fisenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/45646042629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/livobezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202107/files/20210708195928589871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/44395630756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/razaborarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f50c756c054e27eccf7661a750a999/45165562031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105130420057149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardfarm.com/clients/877021/File/lijumifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/fuxukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84746068324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/rosulotarogodow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=proposal+usaha+kerajinan+bambu+pdfPDF 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_off0001134e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 18904 bytes
SHA-256: e48df5c70368db43311bf37a47b95386ddcda036ba185f2889baf7f9c05da1a6
font_01_sfnt_off00014301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14301 11128 bytes
SHA-256: ad9f4b4041ea51586b64c4c20a9a93e5ec9d7feed99cc97e4d5aaf9463bc0174
font_02_sfnt_off00015c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1