Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cfcbc6a1a48cc93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-06-11 14:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c2c15486578137dc08e624bc78020c98 SHA-1: 145c9a8e35357629869787fcdf3d6d5330c3b071 SHA-256: 0cfcbc6a1a48cc937adde321394bc33d26faf75029908fd8123f1e7a4c8a589a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'cartoon movies website free', likely a lure to attract victims. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cartoon+movies+website+free PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6f377e512---40170557791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/jubifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/rilebuvefexerigegogaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c736b18fc---67405953908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609128e85013f---54462173738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609473548bb62---4026877470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/74471491194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/wanevorisimodivibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7a26975ce---19839364460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df08cab874---balexixikowefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83d85199df81900d1f4331bf0f92bbe5/18979089865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc92f5b9a14cdef2e74f782ec3360783/novizitajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/bizomodekasugosoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayfamilycircle.com/clients/5/53/53cd9f4101e72b768929e5daf979c2da/File/rawevifasejusekonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C3 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 96d4b5231679a2a9008bd7e174b6df5ae7b4c7d3d26e997357c75707fe08e18d
font_01_sfnt_off00010204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 10932 bytes
SHA-256: eb7e88c17afccd917808a9016780886bf292c04b1639d4a0c394e7fbd843563b