Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cafe3f1eaffd198d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:21:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d15030a21dace46884a1fa63bd3d6a45 SHA-1: 26c6e2a4ef68028b2d595e9d6e2766c1d763f41f SHA-256: cafe3f1eaffd198d89610b339b9ece6885ce5383cc974bb6f7cd84f0656a3574
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised upload links and link farm heuristics points to a deliberate attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad74debd58b8cea297aeecaa61b523dc/xujurowub.pdf
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/pejivipibusigawusibififeb.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32f317a360d5473bb9a50e35c50862a9/regazuvunawidij.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070377ac0cf1---warebid.pdf
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/28508388532.pdf
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixojarukijeruxixadog.pdf
    • http://elfast.ru/userfiles/file/51984361866.pdf
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/xizisodusipej.pdf
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/linix.pdf
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/topawodivu.pdf
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41153081373.pdf
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofilezakemiwogi.pdf
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/sosufesusakufo.pdf
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/75237402462.pdf
    • http://graficaeformazione.it/userfiles/file/sinejomebozulosuj.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-7/file/rafifisonupezone.pdf
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/pufigabuzaki.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7fc6fb8029d107c3cc2cb866ce49b4f/57647295314.pdf
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujudibexurelovumijison.pdf
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/lupazi.pdf
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jukodut.pdf
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/putamugi.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161208ba8a0719---62058846133.pdf
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4041864363ae051a4d0bcde27b1a1eb/damokizidiwigibonab.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f86c32c89f---94626062073.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=discontinuous+galerkin+methods+theory+computation+and+applications+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b77b.bin
5cd1f244036788b95c4773f3f72a1f940644a38970e4d0989c9ad582ce862147
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB77B 16580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9d9.bin
a71442e16607ecf505ce9c1fa802f5dbae57b260b8a6627def4b843cc9c0d98e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D9 11376 bytes