Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbea181ce7ee56c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9d702979c8fc8f0de075138b536757cb SHA-1: 8ffad6138a5d0fee2cb93f83fe1b7475db7f28d2 SHA-256: cbea181ce7ee56c12770148be640eda00c1b6e6402460747bbdb05b77f5d2ebc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/90694472519.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd05dc92c97---pagusevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/54847283287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d51aa979114ece3c5ff4f65ec435fb/86737361530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/16866514218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0fa8f73dbded2f53e758005fa23e819/rojobitimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvcloud.com/data/board/file/20210513072613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/86675689034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/67692261342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/92937439753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e2d8694db6d40d44ba9ed08aab4b202/limibela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ce3aa8fcc263334580ad1b3fce3dd4/96738041036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37022875865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/33794955132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6f85ed986---kokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/6811875272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f2ac3d8f85005b677711d359e591d11/patop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/73336161754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a628671eada---nodadomutididetukezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/32285358404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a74a48e4aa821c06a3381df87dc8ba20/tetisomumatezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/tajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/meputuviwabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+put+a+password+on+a+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_off0000f2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C1 17952 bytes
SHA-256: a9599543d82cf04c3071c01fd65db0fe7eaed3f992a71c8603a52ff76fec9cda
font_01_sfnt_off0001215e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215E 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 54adaef4950063ca0ddd51b5819c57eceac30c2cd30b9c1227aae493f36b1a13
font_02_sfnt_off000139a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1