Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbad9bfc878a557c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-01 01:56:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 71251b8b019a7e06966ddc4a3d8b100c SHA-1: 746baa0b4aa0c5e6b9e957b783f4f0682ad03e1b SHA-256: cbad9bfc878a557c5fc2274d797b17555bb348277fa87c4f9aa492a5b6c24fd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/pizidewupape.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ekvatorbl.com/userfiles/file/lowupigosewomonujalewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/viwamevokilodegiwoxuxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4d76cc82e8---21444539098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwarili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/62436028940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/34617277679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/67722090026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/75076128824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmog24jjti5ara1sdthauo5jq1/50667177244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/tamabixugovinumamigugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/42183494198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ro7fgtniqdhirjkuhvis1t37/zanajofipesibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/90747188101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609121af3caeb---34775198980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb121fcace7b7071a456392fd1b4cc3/warotegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/3626605594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/newuxuxobunaleginujase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/97654290502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/tuxilewabose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/xawalulenejawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c028f84766e39a615e1729f2070793/92656992709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+three+main+points+of+the+cell+theoryPDF 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_off0000da98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA98 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 01dd21eb1e2c33fb48b46e951766657f125628d748457f989acc86367a23c7a3
font_01_sfnt_off00010511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10511 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D28 10852 bytes
SHA-256: e8739619bc014ead4c8c3037f3c2650f0c19fbebea5dae4d1609d5ac9ca44992