Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbc2256007d1afd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 423769bc6d88593984c1bbd6dd3dd9c1 SHA-1: 85c3f6a6d98c7a12d7c7f5f25b6fcfae0978d6da SHA-256: cbc2256007d1afd799eb821f5a9ff1cef45210b710c7e7cb2191d395ae00a4b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, limiting further analysis of the specific payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/58016329863.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/69158251037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/89595582387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/38561263972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/razoliboradufexogulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannadey.in/FCKeditor/file/21596720884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/90023747721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613837f7dcc04---49802618852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudanewemubabevave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/risozijugamamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/78999437922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/luterotilaligafasuvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/simisemenapetidosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/jojasinawomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/35266795501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908114914620442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biafrapol.pl/pliki/file/29345419954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furazodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/46333873832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/52428030781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1b727b1a3---49890066644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newabel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98005595588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ecc2cc77ed---85310465667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=android+visual+voicemail+not+workingPDF 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_off0000de03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE03 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 08cc59d30f9c829c01c73c7af2d794fffca13f89aa46a9e530f4433783ee8cff
font_01_sfnt_off00010d73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001258a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258A 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 19084d2c7cce8f7a419f19a7a1c5318e04f3f2f03153353e4af934502e0edefb