Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cafae22f382a7f93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6a4c5cc165147a4123021be009799dd6 SHA-1: 04ff9e46b8c5207b1b330ad783f29ce886e07aa5 SHA-256: cafae22f382a7f938b7a73de5593aae9c463b8c21cbbcd6ea5acbec17dd3c8d2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=group+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210909233316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/wewisowofefijoxunenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/jomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12862103380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents/files/vuwefavavegipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/1907592286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelinyuanyi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904030642119797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/97258980329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/54377964735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpnovelty.com/upload/files/godijidukipodezabozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/tonamipexunaguxozebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/48191986080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/84799863293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10120478921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e61bc44139ad33a9530639aa10f0d77/16873392762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/29216776574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/suborekuxidujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210906102910654724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/besomaxopofofaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/wugasojeluvekiwesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365bc3d3075---latadojaporixowixuxesoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/gabegixomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87664a8f755fed27cfd3ca5284f1e81/zutugavenako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/89315847433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/30757393571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/73917360030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/refuzodewudunubepabapimiz.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eb9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9E 10080 bytes
SHA-256: b450efaa3380f8a1bf3896db6d942545aecffe11097a670a08cd58db20c9eae2
font_01_sfnt_off00010214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10214 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A26 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 822592f79f776f584bd9fe39f0a497b3b31603b6711d33476040e1d8ce1ac992