Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb093cad385b173…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:01:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e6fe0ed4b902c9d5a70e9d9cbf10e43d SHA-1: a6393c9a305f4a55ba231c7a7bea040821841235 SHA-256: cdb093cad385b17355551d28b31e0dfbed2809957f8040b27e7d92625ff88158
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of urgency and invoice lures further supports this, indicating the document is designed to trick the user into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976b6c60453---73547464423.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt5ps0g6lp90ktqf3a61v28jif/85910999154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6ccc8398b---73583233607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71b562b882cb63f2f073eb1fa763c68a/66000039589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf98b9ba4a---betusupevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/98913378244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b840f66857f00354736081ff9a7396b0/luxiramovugodar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9000c7d5e4a565308269ad1deb51352/bobovujefogurikalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c877nc7ehc9fu03kplua9qgfr7/mesomumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/15668483962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077143243727---14176214806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/juraninemenunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5f77e7de9dea27594cf281a37f01fa/tufijifigotujegavenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/20174091449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qggja5d19i6i793ntbvk1tgc4/62270500860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/15200783501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210623152523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943973b4fa8---61241947331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/76015772883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandegroup.net/files/ruzivulogulazegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/zudalamanebozuruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aoj8g2d55f808b28hljl5uk90/letagide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2ae414901---44922089977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=schedule+subject+to+change+disclaimer+examplePDF 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_off0000fcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAE 11508 bytes
SHA-256: a0538333d0f844fbc632c8d1221a63ad40b0ad411baaf95ad506d482775f88cb
font_01_sfnt_off0001174a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5C 17364 bytes
SHA-256: b78d2c6f770aa2edad11e88b5e5ddbe7ea3dfea21d501c63909db78d25654422