Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdbe3ec894c6be2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-12 08:05:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 788dc2d84781e9ad04145c06dca20b90 SHA-1: 2f168e99640bca2049f555a818af2c6c821d2ecb SHA-256: cdbe3ec894c6be2a404f74bef24b81b7a9c452e2f1e98b29c37dc17e05853697
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Htc unlock bootloader tool zip', aligning with the heuristic findings of link farms and compromised upload URLs, likely serving as a lure for users seeking such tools.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=htc+unlock+bootloader+tool+zip PDF link annotation
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/56129940454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884b3410f85---fowipozodowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e3957b9bb---diwafetunoraroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59924c694e02300746c6689ff3c65bc8/45551148865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/pebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/43000508497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolofetutavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1521177672631cf3d2e84d625cfa4897/92866167556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/78403435883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/31284162036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e302c1147---25353890899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6bc004c78---92100832704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/sikukomadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/16825673566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41a171d390ccc4fa01a0d15a6db702b/94254111666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/vugewodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA91 4988 bytes
SHA-256: b8e1e0bc0eab34b40e85d2a074c4440e753957b7e00bf64ebec25a4dbd0ee91d
font_01_sfnt_off00010b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8A 15152 bytes
SHA-256: 73cb9805419415c0ab4a9a33b50a6d60283eb3ebd7e074a09551ec43bad9f635
font_02_sfnt_off00013707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13707 16376 bytes
SHA-256: bc7e3f6831be34686de02ce7be2a06b9f1fa2b1a298201cd6e3dc3baf4672bf7
font_03_sfnt_off00014cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CAE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3