Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbd6345ff3669fc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-23 16:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a28913fbcdbb86a00f368829973e1d7e SHA-1: 7ed199a9ef1ac3055aa3a185c4ce571d41596b96 SHA-256: cbd6345ff3669fc582dbea80bee6aa6952afb45c4e74458f40ff56b2ca91365d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmpv68aiaf832b2mr8gmpufal4/71688220129.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764cdf9cf23---96795135799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/859e0c327266738be38e24a22c2681f1/gomumulokuniwidepupodijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607668648aff4---16320061204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846fc827ab3---sunemarojakalubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitman1964grads.com/clients/6/6c/6c9ae932573016e5ff31759a10dce4b4/File/luloloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mas0g04ts0m29rk2ar8i0f5nn1/wideve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02ce1a25e16ba5b43c8019fead39009/riluxareborebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/giferipamewuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/90667451647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e64b08d67---14503551170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5746jp0i068v0a9p9gh3ftdgj5/lidexilesafuvelepipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797ddbf1b1f---91913330659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqgchvpdc12i26cse3nqg6vk1f/68988780519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c55cc39bc---japadibasabijaguradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=appsc+group+2+previous+papers+pdf+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE203 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 9348273e1abe6d73ba63a1872fd666ae612238268f617c64b71341893a1e1a03
font_01_sfnt_off0000f530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF530 4996 bytes
SHA-256: c65e0434c7d9ecd4cf6218238b615cd26e4e5f01b6488aeeb8f3dd686b223a06
font_02_sfnt_off000106f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F8 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 15ec0ac140e737c9c6012fe13ac4614541c32299fd5f2071f525b8113b798f21
font_03_sfnt_off00012c7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7E 16224 bytes
SHA-256: c50bf159684e31bc25ed99e8f64a0ae36f67efd5ed2bcc23192f1bcb1baee7a1