Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cafaad5cb2c90e1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-17 01:26:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3cd395d6c127f5666d90be7d83df4632 SHA-1: 6aab2e2f9fb993376d5eba442330b21eeba91d28 SHA-256: cafaad5cb2c90e1fec6f77a00e4cf2553e5652f246fc639a4f370325dfed35a2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a lure for remote support tools, indicating an attempt to gain unauthorized system access. The document also functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881b181b10e---mebesidelas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infotechbg.eu/file/dobikivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/25769326206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/wakivutufevipebasiwogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608643b61ae0f---52962175582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/85415361375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/27737546803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c94d2lecrrpvrdcts5s1jtif/gunisupevigaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210810_031430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobrofab.com/clients/d/da/da7cd3953015cd63472398095fc1fcdd/File/bixexogejitewoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/62712089196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/40813579953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd4f8411d0d086ed8e183603e70fe602/sagelowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/95096462211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keledonikijedugajelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c484ee3e28b0b054f9bb6b8af3fe30de/80163169496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096849be1ac4---laxiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-14/20210714023445809374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/17903463586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to5nnsrcam2hrpa9og3ot9s153/xugafexapekimitoluvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/23851783656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/xijobaxilelumabali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/madebimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mibubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+custom+songs+to+beat+saber+psvrPDF 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_off0000e28b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA2 11100 bytes
SHA-256: d53f8c2cf362283f2f84c71d967559d313b172393d99c4fd2a0a9cb00a8a92e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11422 19036 bytes
SHA-256: 53527ee449d2d018d54c0d18db1580505b0951408ca7ac884bd5bd8f2a253268