Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbe836838ef40d50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 13:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 596c2484241beb96d780812f2664de7e SHA-1: fb417296945696d9aed42cc38a7a3a77378e82ce SHA-256: cbe836838ef40d50aee673e952a021331cbb9a37231a8c9a834f6fc31e741936
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common method for exploiting vulnerabilities in PDF readers. Several heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://quangcaomattroi.com/uploads/news_file/rexavomudosuvurar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134321cca198---selorebofazono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/5918075105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julafimanitilipofodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/92909125586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakurahoaanhdao.com/webroot/img/files/mawokexixuxipolovafojitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/zisuxemivefugotigobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613729c506cd3---37577777304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88a8bf3a729623ab3683814fb2a06956/nawimivulewazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/46084440338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/wonofunabinazewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/sezeraradalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uetty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/46905803488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sizikawibiduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/rugalaminawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/mejisozadipumobubofogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hvlc2f0qlvi7ni1i6tc2clc0f/8423817093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77506041957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/govofakupinesokazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/fesikiwizejasukuwisowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/469eb4a4d66875db05baa5019efb61d6/79205934882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/13635440302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/71700457623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=english+only+please+full+moviePDF 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_off0000c106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC106 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD918 17444 bytes
SHA-256: fd657006bd2fa3f92978fcbc4538e5127385703ff6d584c1af2dc3bf2480db05
font_02_sfnt_off000106c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C3 10872 bytes
SHA-256: ee88ff19d1e463585ad112ccabf5b2cdf1470445de5e60aedd130049e96880a5