Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cefa55314f679a3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:10:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 09f3c52bad6b6a350c072daa1b6cd017 SHA-1: 6f30c31e5e1a7f0c512bb32bf34539016cb91999 SHA-256: cefa55314f679a3de8b6350e875c4dcab626ce38be50a7324884d529edc3d69e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Numerous external URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The `PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM` and `PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM` heuristics strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=korenix+jetcon+1301+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/bazemedusuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/2023183813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/9442172136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/risokelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/vavojinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/basexujapegagani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/ripowobori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e23f7557c---zogogeriduwegapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/68604131213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bc41c215d---bokeninadirupeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75830a83876a48c4a2f3a304a76add08/42661468210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opccah90rg2tiuignm0ubvm06m/3029177716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/55262223667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074089eadb03---midosuluseromabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e45020e2cf83157399ada08b730c95b1/xebifepositilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e33a02afcb2---jiwujina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/dojakoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84270795793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27360547643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b836e6a6097---lipoduxojamewurapabatitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playindiano1.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23732379139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jefukawemutixaveras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukonozomozosunonerepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/17835657558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063f5bb691538a80a2716b2bd60b9a70/pulurefukivakipig.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_off0000fbec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FE 19332 bytes
SHA-256: 06f09a67fef82fc724d166380f5f1d1596a43a13057390b05650b2bc2cc0be8a
font_02_sfnt_off00014694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14694 10892 bytes
SHA-256: eb5bcabb89fa54bf002da3d7537931bb76c31aef84bddef269e4e66d4e485588