Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca0ffe443bd070ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 09:19:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: b1efc77d6ae4354d2920ec932fb378c4 SHA-1: 149c34a15e31748c1daebbf898b6cb02284524ad SHA-256: ca0ffe443bd070ab10843601d3b7691fc014bf7f85134404e924ce3d33cc8594
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary evidence comes from the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafutipinavag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608640c8e252a---rexifudosekubimajovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afea3900cea---64196841009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nagozijoregazizoxajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yesilkoyluleriz.biz/resimler/files/81671737405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a94325412---35691336184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eb646dd67---62441188343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/suwitixuzuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/88298138230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/gasisefozutir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/vuregosemomavunamimibeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/44288576598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73572486320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765cb7e299e---93607549925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tok1tgj81oor9a7qpnci481t7/pagemozetalitevejujadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc2f9c8a9bfb64d7ab24213a440126b/84708933428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf82f052e2b---vilumiwugefemixari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e461b426d8c---79187326812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923429b21ab---lotaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/26134009717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/85431212768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607515595c498---37928928389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68379370110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/vabuwegipigifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07daf5b0e6c8df1ff74e59ba6d9f00a1/3814602055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+resueltos+de+integrales+definidas+trigonometricasPDF 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_off0000dbe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE5 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 290c84218f4f28d30d12ec3c3a421442ab56ec9ef4226696b6a538975d3eb82c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF548 17844 bytes
SHA-256: aa4d6b94375c82acaf2d45f281668296c5dd76575e213f8a953fa17c67a4c854
font_02_sfnt_off0001222b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1