Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbcdb9660f0e4b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 404c5c00d19d951e9a85a75450d54ccd SHA-1: f56bf4bc80d1c02acbdbf8ca59c91f8b68c17721 SHA-256: cbcdb9660f0e4b9835ea805136f1035154e3cd46dfd4f1e56d22776e28dcb699
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDFs hosted on potentially compromised websites, including CMS upload directories. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://lockerova.eu/admin/upload/documents/25875257270.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b4e6a87a0---76442650764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/xujimowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwcasino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusunuwisufosokiwoxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/zaxulotefoxoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numismatika-nbkpdy.cz/userfiles/file/57217281246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/lotibutadugizizuvato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/kaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derp74.fooden.com/UserFiles/files/63296550639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/sitaranulejubetobozadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/39849155813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/besuxafufopifebozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovatuxoxisaxuzusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/16315747317wca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/fesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/gunofimopizedelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dudakoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d6c8219c1---mikubelubivosisupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manisafar.com/basefile/marcosafarir/files/23986215574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/liwejesite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c1e86b088---32200108258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5740314029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/jutukowudidutaxezoxugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1cb502fe4---79798983276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613418f2a701f---lawuduxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/86760805506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=root+apk+download+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000c381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC381 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 5247bbdbfd5c9bf3efe267bd7dea20edc7e57fa88639f51161f65ea9490b8e1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10726 10672 bytes
SHA-256: ce44e072b7c817da98a391700e09da5bcb57cb393ed4223492037090513569a6