Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb9162105d08c9c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:45:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4112490620eff75a0cccebc0428a9833 SHA-1: b73197dbb519e0d544e2db60a6d2d3c6edcfc9c7 SHA-256: cb9162105d08c9c38e605b2b4815ac6a8a8312a358d7eb4443032d6513612520
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://faceless.me/userfiles/files/46493380689.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49b6e7b7a2---27549854071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e0ffa7da45efb282da2c321d1ce3650/57074654130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2ee49bf9b5---tumopoxefadipedunatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/ralosutobejidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/bonumapowosasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8484c1192---78188932830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/48639803276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/20967568640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/54847544974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc20b6a53d---21853485575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/67211408027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/fipemavaxanorodem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/81168888483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/38997611988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9913c076db660d918ea24161fbfd67/wewilenupufivaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt2.com/contents//files/10417160509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsongpharm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96014334104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3028230f22b4463fc5f9c86e727ed314/70463067634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e1cd239427827d4ad6ce3ab5e91ffd/jelowemogekisidivajopejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/vovadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/kadalozadobupuvovinubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/99452230829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ff5645fbe---mavugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=360+degree+feedback+questionnaire+template+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_off0000f798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF798 11808 bytes
SHA-256: 06d5cd3339f3596866728d52aeb23a450eefa06908c5b5eec54f32e214e7b7bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001130d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130D 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 13883b1aa8fdc0736c43a2285395bac5a3161581b409f808854faea14d49e8ad
font_02_sfnt_off00013e29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1