Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cf5f98ced60c202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:33:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8e73f56cb11d1eefb1063074303909cd SHA-1: 80d6d52426c96881ff245773752030cf1afb400c SHA-256: 0cf5f98ced60c202e7dbf44a866a3d0ff2c56149ff64771dce07a882758a3f67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a tactic of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://atya.eu/files/file/rilumumozegajikalakutejix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/dubokumegekubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oejk6progcu7fmcq6f1eso6isd/57076359315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents//files/28487486438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ec754dd910d4e469af81a4d975dad2e/52805109978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072942249c7e---xomelarulura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/63577431839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e77bsvr92s299bfj47budbb6r4/65557524761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a207985268f---80439497913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kleinimmobiliere.lu/userfiles/files/tilitasebovupumudewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/72205201871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc6f682c35---12925753725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/pasoxotoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901bcd3136f---89265683855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712f920821c---mutimesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/katijewujimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb30aeff41---28231157904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289qj4v96uojg5pcirtu9bn6l4/10467053062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/notiloxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/sipetudakubiroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metupunokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/84181097535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79528092458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+semantics+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_off0000e6d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D1 18060 bytes
SHA-256: c6a6a18ce2e6a4e2fd5b90fcdd52dc12deb8f9e0b114d039a97633bb468e5135
font_01_sfnt_off00011586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11586 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9D 16176 bytes
SHA-256: e5e7d87ff552b768afee0b00cada4a91a588ec96bb6424a145d1547eecc48a9c