Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbef309b99e6a004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:32:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d8c3d6c4c103635f2f65b2b9d2852a2 SHA-1: 51865623317bea81a1c2e3ad8130c5c4164282a2 SHA-256: cbef309b99e6a004b63937b53230a3598ac9615b3fce5315660fa5851e152021
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+art+of+racing+in+the+rain+book+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/31262277846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7334149053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/monosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/muralete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efff3dec80---81604887024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/12607256728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67260048965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/mutepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/50925899582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/mogamezalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/7000022036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/18670004660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d786be0c3d7---939272457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/sirefazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/turikukiledixunabukogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/nezodedovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/vajilikugeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73a4635390b85cc3decb1073bafaa7f/pawejomezuvekozimotekipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075883260583---93384521365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/kepazamukamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/29853965284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/kisidiziwovewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36000340865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sainaudit.mn/File/85577118339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/71869716843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/12491966786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD866 10868 bytes
SHA-256: babf877b307625b2aebdaac04cee3961d390f87bb8a54d7ca5aade4634bf3c31
font_01_sfnt_off0000f14e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10960 18916 bytes
SHA-256: 934140511c4c37791f2d7d22b91459dc3a92a0b92e02884132fed5b8f7346a1e