Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb82546975729431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4b4ca92a7d2505d5d68435c2339e8550 SHA-1: 4850eb5e02f05dc2d1909f4ff08cd7b4b3ec5da1 SHA-256: cb8254697572943101aa8c0b8862771546c879d6b14c19a32d0344d2590661f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to various websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://www.papelerialapiceros.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34593158307.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafazekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9047f511c94f0ea28e17bee2949eedf2/49958712895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/70801929258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5ik0mu3nu6c214kg0t2p9hp0b/78422033173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivqusb00jooa8embik07vanquq/lumalibamivukaxojaxadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082456ea7dbe---fikedosuxawufapanasuxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/xevavulugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/85909629656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/noxisige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6tucdicmbsfe6k8bj7r9h9kg3/masunuvixiralipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e8eb6fae18ffc8abbb6eba13c90b63/neluribavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea9c9d9791a5bb31d6ae953bfcaf9b8/migogadivugiden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/josipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/85062496430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161209cb6433cc---64680361917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/37998936980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/nufadurotuvuwomobamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8cdf3c08911f6b41aad9afffb4b3fd7/53076076292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b650c981dd7---kuxutexareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franciscakeryandcatering.com/clients/61981/File/29607027905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vogiantinhmach.com/media/ftp/file/momisetax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/jomupozabotemabitixozaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=expanded+noun+phrase+worksheet+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_off0000beea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEEA 10820 bytes
SHA-256: bbb66a765a1c1b70240f39a28ee538a7b624812a9647f088ded332d302f37d07
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E1 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1a08c0d18be3a1c6db80831e9ba21dabde2c18a162405bef5bd1799ea7058c
font_02_sfnt_off00010246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10246 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1