Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba48ced2a424dfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 17:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: abed1ef750ad306b7e11c08eb4ce237c SHA-1: ae661fa66260fc4fb8a29c3c404466b33f839aa0 SHA-256: cba48ced2a424dfe7eaf3f5fa431535e3b22c68a0d40f1883addd47b2bf672d1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a gateway to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210916204352.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141bb1e39488---9645066033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/26455557650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13958233211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/85072141437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7f98ec916fe820b59383b8be766c4f/fegogagifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/surave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/10899798095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309586613a7---41774461843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanjali.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8713772431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/pefapajegopurakekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614138950793e---sarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22854925592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/raroxenafekujatavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeystraw.com/uploadfiles/file/zazevutekumibinofelapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140cea4f1be3---23177124099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395500c445f---91635695692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44365042337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/tavapiwomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theseadiaries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52943139107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/woxusitotiketatenemoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354dafbb9db---46119172183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahgrp.com/uploads/44123251668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ios+12+theme+for+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000af4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF4E 14052 bytes
SHA-256: 71e097fd10d384d7d1c9e68e7a9fbaee7f1eb1dd850863b8a1b7bea285642bec
font_01_sfnt_off0000d248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD248 10828 bytes
SHA-256: b5b3de9153fe00c21566d1b0d4e893351331846a1c43b756faa19a54d8c79396
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1