Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb8739ff8128c08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c8b09d9862a2e2809f7ccf2bb92d019b SHA-1: 2b6e8b43795e85ecd3e6ca8a91d84b68187b7842 SHA-256: cdb8739ff8128c08e6d3d8e0ce590e4aa39fd1c3c1bee30f05e71ff0008ae4f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URLs indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/85238579230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/sixovodofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/91776938258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/tutubawagefexujisariniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents/files/36566281414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/zobajosigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/jugedovikuruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19093153848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/wikerageja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cross-winds.in/upload/contents/images/images/xafemibimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/jaruvudikabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///3637115084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez1.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxutazidufebudukifisipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulopevukazikuwuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/kokexaxolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a49d43be6---54846059959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e1694e3ed85f40d337cec26d8646889/27770512440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/95331510518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/46052960774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/gesumovofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/33863751819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/jabusugubakuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c07d67544babbf1c3c75ccf641156a8/25887984064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=detroit+become+human+apk+obbPDF 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_off0000da90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA90 22072 bytes
SHA-256: 067df16ce78087211c613fac22998786252498765ff5e3443b2ce2462320bd8e
font_01_sfnt_off0001144b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C62 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 3c297ef1daae874d953975cdd50465e2cacec2f502bf5cdffbc2a11a807f007a