Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd006f856999e7e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 08:29:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b3d8db934df9a601254738457a05ad4b SHA-1: b7e5fb1d3c91858f27328b5adcad9209d401ae30 SHA-256: cd006f856999e7e8ea13a1ebf1a4e2d4ec43bf6f159aa8eb614773c240ef9682
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/40527787092.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15d1229065---rofirulopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/zixeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/dusuwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cf043d69a---warexeraviwejekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/202mkmdae1uo9hl1gmofh2pert/kidefolabugaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/kudepeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/96887989234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25c149f589---7364636143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57251540888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa1969f708---duxeniguvite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3656a3700---salajudobaxisofovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/anqptj8hsfqckad966dh7c2hk9/wisololudunanabuxirojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bf8633d15---42824858032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-06-22/images/files/41318470155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085954c7b584---34101974761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhighclassof77.com/clients/9/9e/9ea685038b5a197d2022a69b8c6b162a/File/47058119133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26814a6457f798dd1565b1ba914d2c3c/28170990881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtutrang.com/upload/files/lanegifaliwadelinut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc8bc43c6ba---59093516757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/lilikozusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfef3ed4a2f---53106972745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/86264482135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/170e5c3869ac4ddb820209465480184d/25475472120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ccf1a0d26---41541828651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2bbd22abf---padasuzojofebovebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=chevvai+dosham+in+8th+place+in+tamilPDF 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_off00010ed2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000126e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E9 10984 bytes
SHA-256: fec015a1ff90227b1ced3c3ed25db248e4c1f7e77f8452d7db377cdc9a83a86c
font_02_sfnt_off00014046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14046 17576 bytes
SHA-256: a8a3b556b359dd41f8609bf25a5e0ab640493539a39563db87e5c6cf41f44b5d