Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caffdee5dd006e34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 23:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 272f61cca51ab6aac74ed429541c23bc SHA-1: 61b19e255fe0976d8fc941461fde79f666542b7d SHA-256: caffdee5dd006e347f502b3debeee7190e501172b63935992ff6c696d80eee7c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates a phishing pretext, likely to trick users into downloading the linked PDF. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a malicious phishing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/affb6dc8ce5b65f01dfeb709ad7ef92f/kusozidarujimifavanuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a027f9b32a1---18369183435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee902bac58b---89249590258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607387c3a509c---fulesalanokidujipujimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/gawizabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607538fce344d---tofirazidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202153157559311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4hkosjjqedmf91pvcf5bdg2q0/91873325248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypcalumni.com/clients/2/24/24042806289e0d450134266962f0a0d8/File/89781834939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43cfd73fc8---20355880345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33tniit5q20ekcegkkej2k9282/66539948873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjgrsh6qrn0lf7kjab9a9dapvm/lobunerakisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88051210648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/66395653577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609894f96102d---69993086389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eb60b43b1---vomiwesalenixajodozizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960bd90a07e---buxajetawutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ms8p72ltltjmf7si3im638566/puwovule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/xudosanunemasebokipipani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255347f28d---pupagojubufedigisuwuxudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/18975026319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xifere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3chgj7vn3luj63r0kda7f7jmi0/lefikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786a05ca3e3---56110593017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d0b2bbd79---sesaxubowupetudoxelaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b1468de25b64b9e9e4b6f32418625a3/bagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca736b5b2cbefc1aa9c0c9428795b2f/97490436237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=note+taking+template+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_off000107e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF8 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 394e0f660e988b7ea600a2c5359d5b5471cd995ce241b8e181f1f4ba9568187e
font_02_sfnt_off00014e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E7F 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 9f0b4cf89471423788992d80018f547cd40816b5f59f893a8ad40856f59b54fb