Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdba088944c0b80c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:21:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3da905e91c14bd7435f8eb3f2cff50e7 SHA-1: e451b2c0628efe9a462601b0942d53c6f14d0d59 SHA-256: cdba088944c0b80ccca763f7a3a87f22e66de0e805e312116d1e888e53ebd4b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites using the 'super-forms' plugin, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the nature of the hosting indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ef4ca8dcde32fd85a2fafe94629769/kademotofitovuxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4816efff5f56e3e0ec0b76644ad927d9/topazuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/jebeperitimuwopedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/13918335014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/nagibabusemozulamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984ab98a725---97383953479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4b968ce85---2463027762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xopelurexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1l7gl2jmji503dp9a2ibgbb03/68820229481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savannahcentury.info/clients/4/44/449a5b3489ef279447e90cf6cdd72f1c/File/ketogirikabenufotajipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/fujupifuzijudanubajuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/dukonogojugofexakogefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/xotuvevokulotemudiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/79402454916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78396604465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87b298519---6067796306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aaf31678a---40952393840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da22a63991d291ca2ff9cad714b74a67/1094956894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9162ba0b8e---burawovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosaxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef0749466fbadc22770385935b8d22f/64822881269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784d9856707---65316746530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/75350768801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminesenlikoglu.org/resimler/files/14867849078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094c3313101c3e3c41667c19ab209654/70807022685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettomontanino.eu/userfiles/files/50534178447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=program+to+combine+pdfsPDF 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_off0000d5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBB 16864 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed32a343cca2416ebcdcd1e5c7d41c35fa4b2bdbc8b6e14b49b485c5a021a8e
font_02_sfnt_off00011960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11960 11060 bytes
SHA-256: b67ba53bdeaeb0ffda564c8f17265d357caa4698ce451788b9459ef65fe9c5aa