Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cef6d0688187685e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:37:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7fd31f3bba6b83856ea7bb66ecc849d7 SHA-1: 3f294e3f20de3dc0fe5e66f36528b31f70133555 SHA-256: cef6d0688187685ea21b0ed751b92997a34d6b4e743dae970fcbc3370b88d514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

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://karatenarrewarren.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10775185618.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d457b3cb41cab54e525d935277fcbae1/dalajegiwuwabuboxutoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422687e7f7c---susotefefezigupiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915171357265518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/babolegamuledutofijufubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solirofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/21538140251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ud-hobby.com/images/Upload/file/tudujajinopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/98209077085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210909053704_a2h6ym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodasepovegabilesoxazufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korovotexigupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radioevangilereal.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/40484290016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fd7799c28---diwasupogoxifuzekimomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7588ad9ab1c77243e1963fb93bb75e96/18001544009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/49935082490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbq745k608hqndprd5i4h6ndo1/44738719956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/mixaxijesezipote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokugelivukezovited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svezadjecu.me/userfiles/file/tidavimenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10228343623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssaisarang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=diskpart+cannot+create+primary+partition+on+sd+cardPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 9b4bcfb799e8ecdfecfc3a60ce83432881ce0bb9afe8f5904489b4a29922c7cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10879 17292 bytes
SHA-256: a026e93321e5c5775e40660eae89a308d5f5075fc363365186b4f371957cf838
font_02_sfnt_off00013560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13560 17340 bytes
SHA-256: f2ed7a17ea4b9ded382a6156c5cfa122147622385093c1656179b6aa7711aaaf
font_03_sfnt_off00014ead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1