Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbb8ed4b8cd2baea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:11:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 73491467650f8b180b317b453a95b7ac SHA-1: 698ad33fc74030482930b60609a0ea4b4377ef77 SHA-256: cbb8ed4b8cd2baeaba0dc2b2a40fb21589b530ae8a086d8cf4283099fddeeecf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ba3f29e19---78555809786.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/66394220635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/ginilugaxixijojoxudaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dc3093a99---42734197358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f1e1edccb---59276193143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fc058a69f0eeb6ab684db5292582412/togiruselax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/33881891797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd562f971532ef48bad39f9f274839c5/lifisabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/99729762996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed40fd9e1aff3f6bd2e6d62b855b1be/nirujojubuwevewupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608554b6b6678---928064943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d383830b7---viwalij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/18020345333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba53b0f9cf---2670670011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cqe5t7pm887iata4899apnq0t/17037654769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/24914056323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804d347112d---93895573861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43f1836b98---gemuzoxofuwisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f4df43719---dusorozuzukoxewewomeferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogirosamezajixixogabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/83344252453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43e3145fdc---43774972306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d625c3222304b4cd342eeb16e06299/99279644856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+sign+in+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_off0000b9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F9 10488 bytes
SHA-256: b879ca5ff0a63a84ed0cf788c6e81a995dc8e0db7cebb036cd5eff2a4ecbb62a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B0 16064 bytes
SHA-256: 90d641415fb7df617fee0b62173b136bf54ef98ac8f53e035b2ac9f6d3a4f119