Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba66b9d01867cf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 870edbbb41c14d149682f2e33ea147ee SHA-1: ccc5b93a76b44517bf74479ddcfe417485c8d9e1 SHA-256: cba66b9d01867cf85cc7fd31861c60049adaf9693796d94d8b374ba1e4c1efbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external sites, likely to deliver further malicious content or solicit sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=antivirus+pro+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d382ff059f9a21a307421771b477a27/zigetedaxufaxidedekogobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/22244162119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/nezoxugonenibumiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/gekipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1538ed5cce3b2abb3eab62a8b7f5f2/30463158602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50256467955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcot.by/pics/files/zesatubagew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/27204179465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c04782c54873877d1626cece5588f4a8/39798651141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/rubujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139349f946e6---sewedodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/98680520282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/60420112470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwesisagadenetekisupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/munapixepofukigafudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to2ie26mk8nglmm00bkpt5mjhr/20360930583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/galubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37015944027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/71026255211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swissies.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobinunesigutata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614114b4b12a4---34511109000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/44736209283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/23593612171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://illinoisfiscalpolicycouncil.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/43746337269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613005aa18900---38301369426.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_off0000c006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC006 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 68a69c8cd5015004755536b0758c9ed4418464e6b656b9cd1f5240f824171f3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD855 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 92b611f79036994f955556eb2e9c908494c0a5f656a285bbb7eece89bc3bafb3
font_02_sfnt_off00010311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10311 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1