Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb6aaa9ecf91722…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-23 14:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4df8039bb8245336e9db81b2e3751583 SHA-1: a5c47fdbb692607818abf02d9b39b063ee5a762b SHA-256: cdb6aaa9ecf91722ef3b1b0824134d76a8207b4ff65d6c27ad0204880170f2b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is intended. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dvla+personalised+number+plates PDF link annotation
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/38130361756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/lovefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/81183505555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/43683929037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gik6npl2d89erg00mc7j7hl12/52034033709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/91208479412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/70971363622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2qttjo3i6s826abjoh6gf23ef/mudozojofedufavuzotolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/98823503416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/33422202054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9081ba9e93171833f0e7141a136676c/dotekizajotasuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/73311500547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63633427881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b277a61c1e---duxuromijuxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/79864097443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/rakazidutewerizojavarilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/44961210820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091715d4984a---22572545192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/6255878841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210628021013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/74908403503.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_off0000e926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE926 17176 bytes
SHA-256: f159a35dd0b863082725a474805bd18aeb150495365b7d891ba30f1b1c78a0a5
font_01_sfnt_off000115fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E14 10860 bytes
SHA-256: b3275db4ffa6eb255505ba60d52824117e827a3b46c8b81a9fef8fd4376d83e1