Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba95d9b55e582a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: feb1bb6c4a330c7f19e9c4aa51a0de30 SHA-1: a4db85dca98eab38f4ce3e5686b779cd41f8c034 SHA-256: cba95d9b55e582a3c06ea93de0fda2b4f8f087ac89e5b7b589cd869fb79b2444
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125cb0b39af2---7300515696.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e9681d6d4daacb04e461498eab401f/nasozajopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/setilanelasadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/juxefojakosozevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/tuxasovalajatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v4uad4lqm65lfpcjcqhpbor13/vavebozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54603097734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/kiposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27cfa1ad42---59759856304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/jobugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc287237d0---77027932089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d30a19a5d9---fijaxigixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/zixodatapibomomegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3d555035f2---1738991134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/guvomuseropanaguduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowupogubopeseviraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920804953a6---6286705374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f76e407e6---xikasonunupimexovapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b9ce79eecde93f7bbaec260fc4a8ee3/xodirugamagopadutozafebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/kupafajixeratuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/wesudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loppisidjupdalen.se/images/uploaded/file/gidavijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210725100324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609140553e0e4---bawuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/77524268878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=balane+obligations+and+contracts+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_off000186f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00019f05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F05 21136 bytes
SHA-256: 54e5421185cfaebf1993366b6449c88b3fbe88768ae594021434ea97c3fcdae7
font_02_sfnt_off0001d617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D617 10988 bytes
SHA-256: bb4ce7d50e8a07238583540c952195c52890e0eb328b235d8eebae6a1593331c