Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbe5026aa2749ff6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f1af3e692635ca1c85d61f12d5cc89ab SHA-1: 1fc27add3ecab848bd443d98d81fb4b6f9571bf0 SHA-256: cbe5026aa2749ff6fc72c25da9513015c09e96fac8a4f69c3c858713a20ad625
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, indicating a lure for users to download a file. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c719ae0f7d7d1a630e720ba5bd26f113/1512062906.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9c2d57ceb02775687334d70dc28b7a7/vomidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/14577569235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr5jlv5fli75mnlake37fabk4u/70118202524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dadf88eb72710fcf70d7b4b44332bb/sopatumozawilofuzakonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/40096337233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/vanagewajuted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/80057918301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de79df93af9---50565905843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89f5324744---wexasexedate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6165598f9---disenuzepaperaguzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/75913986840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7a4ac4f2866173e0e6e0a4b2ace859d/kuwimoserelikikurefotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94a2cf33d7---42634898256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/74617064389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f44bcd8a9b---fuxezasusokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e479ba6a1---gisugowotipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/299c4221470a909a530daaeb169a1c33/52928112926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexajokadifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94057df546db5e786b557f84323d6207/5737150767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/46671231610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/50411426780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+19+apk+download+androidPDF 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_off0000f74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74D 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 004079f7610973a62ca3c4d03dd30830ae07a457f62b24a283c681041bc25f6f
font_01_sfnt_off0001245d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C74 10468 bytes
SHA-256: a169ce26fdd084fa6dd7ced1a86a2c7007f6c17af2cde8b7b8a5a238b9db349e