Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caf6388bf8258d55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 397432bd37d3e8820f0def54ca7fdb55 SHA-1: cc14d78630662e9b984fee6d3dfad8827b768e46 SHA-256: caf6388bf8258d5500734c4aeaf937deec9ce62a45fd0069676140a5abedba75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a redirection mechanism to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/18637696082.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72991684193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a103621525d---66080329521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e02b7ee0de---93704073682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/43088215282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/26509250180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2a3d0aaeb44754f7fe2730b90fbe0a/nulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723b222b1bd---migegitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd1e072232---46407170348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/pimivividisuzugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130edd034750---52473476423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7772f2e9477046bb8cf91bcc54515c84/47506021338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyo-g.net/userfiles/file/99628194586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abington1964.com/clients/865474/File/24957831386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/32364086676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1628525215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i51bhu80jnrbpsu0bbp0d8bj6e/vofezadaradir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/59250967060fd355f6b426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/71662339883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/67211072542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610618d6716e1---dakirolojemufomelojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazokomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7450d269c6549786f5fe51846af45b4c/rajaviripetexasurexowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/27930880886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mibapeluxakakalirujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f461859a6---jubusijimetijani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=classification+of+human+bones+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_off0000d95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16E 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 4124cd275105c60486c4986bae4017a73e671bda1a30e461718db70e9bb508c9
font_02_sfnt_off00011de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE7 11056 bytes
SHA-256: dcfb6e3ba3cb888d6bf7b2d648efd1e52a97a77ebaa6a478e09978d34659f91e