Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbc57715346a44ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: abdcac0003a5882288e521b385ab618d SHA-1: 69959711ea9cafe2a474246bfb8b62c4354be5f5 SHA-256: cbc57715346a44ab8e6637be8ff54bf29498095fd876a48aa888b26c4439c3e2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download' button lure and a high ML classifier score, combined with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a campaign aiming to trick users into downloading a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/640e092f4357b94497fe8742f2f0f41a/1311116153.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/jojujefegaroserobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dixaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18940b3d40856a1302413005f7f9b73c/zuzuzonenigewosudikuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/30791595491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maintogelonline2.com/contents/files/pekonobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a5e0ce52520026e0ea3148a02b3c74/22333691900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf9ab9b3b0---mezepebabidebude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c593dd007ec---tenajabibirivaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/57097758380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/2488718825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d05315cd4---sodefuwolarolamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dcb789f14---nezavatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/mawobigenewapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oh63q1t3mmu0ktkv15ob9t4t7/tinimefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b077bc3961e---72230640000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/47263850016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sikobogulitogulowupaxuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855d45421d9---70063074293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b251e7638e20b23d338b640d1f7c47a0/23491458970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///61052299168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/mifizobezesubanawigudufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gujujozopibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/13029204280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=istick+eleaf+50w+manualPDF 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_off0000d925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD925 18660 bytes
SHA-256: 44318dfd60da335fa955b716a4274e2a2b9b7033e23fef2bf5a9273323e96ac8
font_01_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001216a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216A 10764 bytes
SHA-256: ac3649b2f2e8252e21e0010f697aefacd6b688e2bd56fdc675cc181a11724ec3