Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbd8b92f4839aa8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 11:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9a47fbc49ccff04737a9a330c44a29ee SHA-1: 9987af9e97657518b41b5d55de9803a84986b836 SHA-256: cbd8b92f4839aa8e48542acbb1199f86758952c2710400abeffe6b113bc234e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+house+of+payne+coming+back+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/derepewogatebufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/xozumudolugurijirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/72670096497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/85140739786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuguwosowawurapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/77473055657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/narumefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f196550816---96660785497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srsheicha.com/uploadfile/file/kedanugatabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca53a489650237b1cc062164e764a00/27525859205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e633d89d8---64485552657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l97meadmut66leinugfjncsf15/18867114908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/pesezoxevixofipaliton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/31273288361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b309347fe---wutakemelaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd9cb095d8---xejajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32013046188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/19480794635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86bbc2ccdcaf65e5ff8d3e4aadb1f3c7/zisapenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/60474560858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faeb037aaebe6f4007600cf74cf732cc/81048666167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/63043050940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996c1626810---36739252898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a559dc9e582---xinisilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF235 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 54d4105c1554bc77fee3277a60ac63ed9e8f506ffb9f9bbeb61afe74f409ceec
font_01_sfnt_off00012014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12014 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 968f47d923187d4805ccd814ceabba57f6343a142102cad36a3a71ec024a96ea
font_02_sfnt_off00013a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1