Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb46c53366fd214…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 16:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3a476023924c98c6a0bc5f99d895adcb SHA-1: 8de872a8bee79efa61b6c3ef3bcf58cad72d10be SHA-256: cdb46c53366fd214945183fffbd817f8bb16ae46bb11ca8d47fa7310d049dac7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous distinct hosts and URLs pointing to PDF files. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the hosting suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9627387344---40258240114.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed17fa2a92ab599424a362e12c889496/56503808083.pdf
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/nenotabasejolowijirakikef.pdf
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/63904005371.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e674bbf9a---vukafitefav.pdf
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakamuxeziwixuwonipi.pdf
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/24591231615.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b8d11648---zidinevanokevogabixuxogu.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53071da5b7bb819c67ec8a74b702efcd/28216338213.pdf
    • https://pubs-icfas.org/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netivonoxadirobiz.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82lsvvenep526s6ra97c22alh/68948202087.pdf
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwefowumab.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ac8fa0b35d1eb3863307276e1e7ed5/tuxerataxoninimaja.pdf
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/27457174497.pdf
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d749c11fea7ad0883a670a16758fad24/rutedafesagexevepajosoxak.pdf
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/xusazexuvedo.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822bb891672---13090022069.pdf
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/benibuxixatoverazu.pdf
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/lodolebazukusevutokijaf.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7e8b3e7f9031b9e07d6fdf307e00f5e/tajut.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/fixarewatotubak.pdf
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/radub.pdf
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/56199272479.pdf
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vexobo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=big+pupils+meaning
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edec.bin
207d6e85ea30b36d56fc62337636649f9fe738e293c6fd71275705134ad714a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEC 10428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010589.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10589 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9b.bin
4c0b752f1476ed104739899f8da52d5607538dff0fd3e97f776b45e0475ec3dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9B 17744 bytes