Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbe4b37e43ecd6ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:10:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e8dbd95e3e132f9ad0ea5319f014af64 SHA-1: 92671bced892b9d0f1234ca4b91a8d54370165eb SHA-256: cbe4b37e43ecd6cade0ec3eef64563eba482e19952131f06e57cb2cfaecb51fd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or downloader attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344dcee7662---73378725268.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/tegemusofigatiloputamuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/72109863788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f414ab4874---64864527963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/73254872853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/50417253917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_E41E77764800B7F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c6577fadb---13333765951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7babb3659---fejufuvovosopanuruban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/vuguvufobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnm.tw/uploads/files/202109101913233747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912131313930286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0366c207d587d908946ec6f1d1403682/90814235193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45518623551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/dowelizazowoxifewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/75539361569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/99383034725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/82640171442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/jasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/4362295980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/tuwatogagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozhencherrymtc.org/userfiles/file/dusakemawanozeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/soxinumakadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukt8rmaa9gk0gt0sd8dbelher6/75666419398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=display+time+on+firestickPDF 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_off0000f09f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B1 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4fb32796e7aa8d9cf03b20af6f0522fc8edd71536c827a5ab6157ca1291f6b
font_02_sfnt_off0001383e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383E 10848 bytes
SHA-256: ac5f1b9951ff46bef2938f77eeac1430ef5c07024151c1ee40c185dcee2e47d4