Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07cfe62df05c6c46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:58:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c5513abc8479d1513e5681569aedcc2c SHA-1: 83072896059245ec15f620eaca8429abdd844906 SHA-256: 07cfe62df05c6c46791341ac1d5aae1dfa0004e2a23363dbd0a72fd9c3070277
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised domains and the nature of the links strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://estatepie.com/files/userfiles/file/10407940911.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080757def813---xolagifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f8969e564---88688994881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/folirovifavexujajufiwirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atvatextile.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jidibatuzezabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdf070c9bd37f436eac46538276729d/95772642179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/58877625106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76175324160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glampingcaravan.com/userfiles/file/20210907001855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so0t004r5irbu4r3m5qikp1mf3/27532388123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/74558150804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120397b4d854---59914870716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/daginerebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609182e141581---kijunimutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vblvjh8inb25lgjii9ma6cc0v1/24032524830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/kimozomadexagebaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tappowine.com/file/xuxokirenomafegeresiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/57838812709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126c9508c355---6990632088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4e34734cd---21790380988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd40de1f50---kerobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15fb2f9dba062c6e82d31a3f7c41026f/90283063192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38536237764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=spanning+trees+in+graph+theory+pdfPDF 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_off0000be72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD689 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 5659c2cd76f87279aa5e9f618a0bc66f618d7a3a3f40472510b8cb55647b4982
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF90 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 4896a407ed73c45d6bd49adc0a21991b0aa16ef24dd666284edb51860efe4df8