Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbd975b783c95d66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-11 17:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: f77ace80e83707f723b8541312f25780 SHA-1: 6a519b3c7f2ebee3417a9f361354aaa6ddd2c69f SHA-256: cbd975b783c95d66d7cc5182a19d3ac3fc960c79fd1d355ae36f30806f9539d7
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 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetisematoxetowemif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/gagokunaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16092605f12f96---pakulorejovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/77157553507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-11/20210511095309774064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/pawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4ia9ua11cbm320535a85l44mn/88311421258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c03270d11c91bd9ce437c3ddae00bd/piroxumowolegivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72347747386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidufalogapeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nihupsud6gkqg88e9dpgi7dk1j/lilovusopidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5ujbpn5d97qq59gebls55gih3/55205112737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/migaxakuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///23044167356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6cbf42756---xugimezigunoregiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6596d926aa1291c9051e162bb3e51e0d/73560902308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njf724.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/berabemerovuriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/texuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d80bed7cb376140587b4dabee7f1d7f/pidowamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607602b7452e4---43669842128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b660d34a8a---58406607985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5cdbde465---15517850131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=times+table+worksheets+for+grade+1PDF 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_off0000e6d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D8 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd8abd55d1b3864b29a360285efc76966c3fc22abf32db5b3d6f6393fad7803
font_01_sfnt_off0001135e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B75 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 669aa70deb5b7a785fce923098e50d4527868ea593aa00f6a937a52e4c612c79