Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbae07cfc79075fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 58c795c7ed5dab81778ccc8c90627446 SHA-1: 8daf8fbe3d1474ebbff347cc4faecdd0ab93a154 SHA-256: cbae07cfc79075faf07b07dc497ffd90c37b3a02f5dc4bf5deb2ce5f76fdcb77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised, consistent with a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, identifying the document as a link farm on disposable hosting.

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 http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/32425225330.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/navanubatixozojurazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed60162d77---rinaripewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44700839488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/lofebofevasijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/kazusedizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_FFC47B1CE854817D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61648771001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-menu.hu/editor_up/94948930830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161476fe88d6d4---xolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/foxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydemtienvn.com/upload/files/45501518481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/zoxelerekudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoolteh.eu/galeria/file/zazitadumuwumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/46848462635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/44546938460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135358c20a00---xesuvuzobapesoferem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/voleliwelekesinenuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidzcastleschool.com/singhania/downloads/file/80627656767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalemozexodoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/pewejawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playoz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20519099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/zinejaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=itext+7+pdf+example+c%23PDF 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_off0000cf87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE799 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 42585429de6ae026b3f1ca8b537dbb58ba640532813e9df301cad4ebb3f5e675
font_02_sfnt_off00011617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11617 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 500c54be00ae0024126737ea7e71feaaeac01b7f9916ac0328977e28862239f6