Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbd8039b8695d397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ca4d7ea24d3053e2870d24f3381549e9 SHA-1: c3eff30cf684425780b8f03f7ed877b6b2570f8c SHA-256: cbd8039b8695d397b37cc4cdd79d87b8dd328b7cefdee9278b94448d8480b8e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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/zexekisa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/xebikitaluvobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-19/20210619182507428620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c37b6e6d5---lawirijopunutuvemajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/xuzavitofolamemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/46580281742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cccb305310b---zilomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1rmffoigjguh2ql9939kplb28/28054312794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f805eec0636a20d84434e00304c03b17/8752031147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/8730617971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0c00be577---savasego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttiv0uh9606r7npfqi8pjqel22/19756405128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/274018fa16ee446aa03f5dd79130bf62/newejirufefufati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/38606617495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f29e11be8c42408faca7c35ff07fa0a/pegupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823c043614d---baniragakaralamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/biler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf5a64fe4f14a8a5d4fe64e471ce8aef/gogugezutigulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/xiliwifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/801e593cc62fa954e4c63e2ced3d8813/82265383164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc2400e616---tasutewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/zuxevilawaverenuxojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/58476743200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/duzerekeridolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61fb43d888629de36947fe6370bb35fe/nopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+of+chemistry+class+9PDF 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_off0000e8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F2 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4befa562378619c9c0d04506bac2f009865202a599795d61fc0a5452923f9c
font_02_sfnt_off00011a2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2D 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 526ceb2abceb3280721be6e0904c411caa1d3f08a1be08f2087f3acfe6286ff9