Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba30529469a1e03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 13:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 519f43bf395538e786289065c8d3a7e6 SHA-1: 3028e65a2459cde1a910045ff0a31c7900d635b9 SHA-256: cba30529469a1e0364ba831cbd9372d580f1e8a34058a91325973c024161684b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous links and the use of disposable hosting suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/fizinadivizakukigab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fakipefekubinanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3flluhsemqrqkguiqmqbdoui2h/9029226776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075389c5c00b---79707429885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3koithkq45tcns8dnre2vjg5/67913001321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61f5ad102ccc046b353f9d9353491265/parewuxenuxunofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/22774811615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814b9f6d441---tevanikixuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/6712410901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/44722162447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fbe6ef5e4---dovijapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efa5e45912---xukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/suvikirilega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/91341218595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/9331440600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/seronanafevuwarikuzuwove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb2cf6fb8b7cf372dcea3c913dca637/muzejimaratibofasejuxuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/wuwefenufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04684aa7ad---28863129569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e08bec99f3---ponotigarajopapisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa866e37c258c1046b32006fc919deb/virovebodikojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=white+rodgers+thermostat+not+changing+temperaturePDF 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_off0000cd4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4E 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 2c935eb86c670c5ddf29dda33d1c0a7bcfcc2bd444c02e7d0424ec7e48d2af51
font_01_sfnt_off0000f763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF763 11008 bytes
SHA-256: e89d2e07eb3137af180d75b5c172c3a885ac2cf888299a4689c1020d841eba40
font_02_sfnt_off000110a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1