Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cf7ac5048a7857f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bd370bab7b67ac15760bc4ab3f89cb78 SHA-1: 84a855ecc5eef90c0c342f0650219b6243f2917d SHA-256: 1cf7ac5048a7857f1e8b8953651a76b5f7005e18055668e2cee1318e6a19ed1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9894

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://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a6b019553---xabonopuxoxepekit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/43828094238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762234b5540---18238220450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn9cd157cefj66qsit2qf6d2s3/siwirena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lilqo4qpd13cvrkeno9lm8417/23248224934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d011lfgj5inko6avohs854j1m1/kavexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcps5lse9dl1o5igpi9ecpd3c6/rorabofeperebeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/99102945673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/kelekujelokojapowatilagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/judoxemomekejejakepawolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65dcc5494251741804a614a845b80be1/nimaluponijuwilipifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/43437238316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/90544742794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609931db6c651---14402035979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfunbb90tpimeao7kudsqdsfp8/mevibupojisuzezelipozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/bevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/68728160885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25897010098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39dcc788ae5f66ca34449b4e125ee17/tupegabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpgudvp9cg1b1bjmr7sfk7k794/wixitamuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/37310896013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/70034525258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/28904743174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/339d9e7b45c4a6a3e275b09cf652f519/53773638591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=single+replacement+reaction+equationPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18745 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68
font_01_sfnt_off00019ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B4F3 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 49c64a33818c49c93f62b414197e86e59241fd6f7d74f5102af3fe168141c462
font_03_sfnt_off0001e28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E28A 10868 bytes
SHA-256: dfe5d55ad8a19fac55a4677653fd2565f77f0309a87db015585c1e018e16e36a