Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbba3d354776a6c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5bcbb0ca37de2d51e28adf36cfb95f2f SHA-1: a66c3f628ae63093f76d36ffd2c363dd0bb34d1f SHA-256: cbba3d354776a6c78f3d5abdc638c48f684a6c1c5ef369e22cfa65e82b873780
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=once+i+was+7+years+old+momma+told+me PDF link annotation
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f423f2a072---1506713633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568fb46b76dec949cdb06928f36a3594/58358460892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f6d28639e---75848787814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1ecb577ivuf8bf3c3avkoijtp/93654842747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab49248f318---4164850240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/524hh51l32hvr1h7fideuecho7/dixutitizazazosukuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/zusegejatalifobotilekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b7dc4db96---21905386934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/21488242062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee604226cf---5165720852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/zusejifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a23083f906---85140560692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb2d1a32d530a607c494c69c6534d38/medegudegigevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5pmthlir5uhdvej2aue5vcgt7/7023348183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f2967254b612d7f7fab324d0ccf433/72287282051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47da909f9916d80bc670bd919665bf85/tilopanifujomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savudasewolexipatemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/rekulusanuwaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ab770309---famukipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/sodopabuwesesizife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojkajhkufge3p2eel70o48ggse/rarirafifufojovude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/zureriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fd935cd53---53468879731.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_off0000decc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECC 10808 bytes
SHA-256: e79ea08d4b1c9b3681452212a2c06c09a658d6320d2ecdcd225856f481eb0f99
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ffd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFD 17144 bytes
SHA-256: feff7106b5684f853b8814358d93a084574035ea5e6fee194a3919338a4d375b