Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba0d248f116aee3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:04:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b4d28d1ea663d106e2a5da8acb445aef SHA-1: cf6e31cea7d78c919f459dc1711d44b07c1a93cf SHA-256: cba0d248f116aee3f321878958044f7955ef4fabfb616fb6050ac163c1a8854d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that redirect to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allow+third+party+apps+android+10 PDF link annotation
    • http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/wupoliwixexexajalepuzepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/46403560263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7edd69cce525b8a0f8b0779f0cddfabf/zixejanopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/netezejugewuxivijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/83815950401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litroshaber.net/resimler/files/11660026619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/34393072918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionebriciole.it/public/file/xasatutusetoloxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/96788378547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145263695055---gerifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelniagararimini.eu/userfiles/files/xomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmnn.ru/userfiles/file/sarawitubiloroxekasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/walufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/venuwekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ls3f8o8l7ltqr9vprmn22a8dg5/lojolupule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d98mm3i4a93en3p2p24us4bev1/48250156965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/56157390319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.austarchina.com/upload/files/ditovebiwesozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bfa460a1f---mibixiniwafoxovedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/venisume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bcne5e88f0h528i8kg2nk4e9u/gotiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95835448425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/dutupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/002255a6799ac86d78568f64b6c8471d/gutetunepofogifonofu.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_off0000e726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE726 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3D 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 7b5bd15ee0cbd7be0f893cf4a0efecef2a2cbabdae7f4ac4b0905fcdc3b3f517
font_02_sfnt_off000117de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DE 19208 bytes
SHA-256: 7a5e96ed226d4f2b7cb525d3726d12ff0dc91db8104e363455f0301825b92f99