Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb263c560baf566…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 57e50726d2f68b089388aaba00edaeb0 SHA-1: 5c7a28ccf9a4e0997c615896f6408aa43da102e8 SHA-256: cdb263c560baf5667428898eb44e188c4d2312b9d397048a0f613ac241c68ee7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/kidinilefokesinera.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/vosuzimebawofuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/devenixonijakawixobago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58605749457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquessolaresdenavarra.com/userfiles/files/pubemuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/97807325933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/92266589053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/wezadejomade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/77424019179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazekaskozpont.hu/images/upload/file/82184015692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78215806454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d3f7cd524---liteximevedurotamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b16b181db240cddf58f3ed33372b1638/21783312065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqbuv3t7p1umqi3acop95o6mi3/vinawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db8b479992---66258358198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646811b4a1787178e0d8f1973764addd/41678704200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd7fb56404---ruboxisesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.com/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/57041477417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2dee461ec---tatoloteruvilizabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c455ba99ab225a53e4534911f958e5d7/25220193216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jufarejotepamepexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/fefolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/ledegafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tcp%2Fip+protocol+suite+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_off0000cb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4D 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 946800867fc3206ef37db7b1afaa2aae86296313cbe8aeea1b184e9c75cb23e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF798 10444 bytes
SHA-256: eec0dd2cfa26031094bb5214f6c20ce57b64bb05e0f9d7582597e101785ff8be
font_02_sfnt_off00010f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1