Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caf698c0a42fad75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-06-07 05:04:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bc567366621ced16f3030855ac201960 SHA-1: 614ad519e305fd6ec2b5afb3ea71415950d616dc SHA-256: caf698c0a42fad75bd9fd12dfd7b2ad653abcdd1aa69aac5b319748678b90788
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hanvon+graphic+tablet+driver PDF link annotation
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861c252db69---lerofijojexogilekesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30e78df350---36444108222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef54799d474a4207b4bd7d7ab5ea29f0/82357665364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/18850726119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/gijodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/38285553374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6eb4cf0050---wugefepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/22675922042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805007ee4a8---lapegemidixuxixukata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46c4c14cc9b77565b7efa91ab3df75f/73922372063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/423ea229eb26f5a649463ac31a2f049f/libonokumite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/nekawutujifevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8cafb8a8f---88466458050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f1842d98d---34292851641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/84737548612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754d91cbdac---4130645642.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_off0000d54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD54C 5320 bytes
SHA-256: ad417168c4c86907b099c7f3bb562cb2f5e8466928d1989932b9e19241610910
font_01_sfnt_off0000e75b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75B 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 3d9b8757d77b1ad023173c0ed6c8ba4ee7f07887f81142cb7740991729d4769a