Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cef272db412e85ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:33:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 270626e8216a7a7c025903351edb0550 SHA-1: 58c3fd45f2ac5fd55e99dba07f45e25199b54f91 SHA-256: cef272db412e85ec091e4cdb67a43a035ef2ccc6a6b70375e64bfaa7cabf33c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or trick users into visiting malicious sites, potentially leading to phishing or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/19161728625.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/3846550906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ed398fda2---repewolakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/46867728636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873f8a671fb---57914050624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128eeb30c3af---45151194367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fa3205be53d4dc85d3578f147e6bfb6/32147717481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.com/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/21205797688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/45335154510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/lelomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/lizubopimikimixokopowilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/9763252080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/xolafipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efee25332f---wadafajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/nibisuvojose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7a7f08c41---4026132752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54580110092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/zakixumobedejuweka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/kutojatonabipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120e242bf941---18550156749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/48286082874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd01cd87543---82827116067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee01cbe5da0---56573994143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srsatta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79860150124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759246ecd2c---22451040854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/33280468924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045282pmutsdb2qntg2ufmojk8/85927601914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=parabola+del+hijo+prodigo+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_off0000e18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A3 10680 bytes
SHA-256: c04419aacbb503a9a193a5100f08db5cdf7cdcb9a52f1342585ef87c7da5d507
font_02_sfnt_off000111ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AD 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 28d8bb4c6d8b57dc880cdc7146ad6dea313f459d760a92117634f69a73dd90c4