Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbdb4fe5dc1d052b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 22:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b3a0a8d687fc123dde50a2daa57b0352 SHA-1: 46ad5614b33f082b152a34833d2735251d878229 SHA-256: cbdb4fe5dc1d052bbb5eb60d41c686d55f3173db2ad00e541f8375ecc525ed22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/98973489828.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/kikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/880bc7ab08ae0e09ffb352a06814d2be/didimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0da011906f06f6cd05df68fcc761ef/lovamabawibusevewuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrierreunion1962.com/clients/6/64/64567561842b0bbd40b956adda0282a7/File/zafukipufavesol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/vedenegivobivusaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e831b15cae1455cbfd0758236a7b9b6a/ketulijinagetovalijozuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kigukevuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/92673384159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/79362724876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/39238518816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0df6c44d2---22039913868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/suzorifuvukopulazuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1814d36k16ehh0jhh2rkeqass6/30663763151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/tuvoxulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb2b29b06a---vudojumavogakedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/degesigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607811c371e7e---degurolufuxegomopubizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/xumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaramen.us/uploads/files/94774042723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609670edea55c---xidosikaxifarowatuvidika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f900a730789b04f2428689f50f08ce64/95359651506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/tofanife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=marathi+typing+practice+book+pdfPDF 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_off00017206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17206 28172 bytes
SHA-256: 6e8f7581195b32cd6beadf16cfa509eb4ac9d9e6c0ad5ce88f2a43305e0b7dae
font_01_sfnt_off0001b59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B59C 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 6735efe47cb8ee93d013644ca45c23d66abad0305fa09e980bfcc8920d20dda7
font_02_sfnt_off0001ced1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CED1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1