Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cefe1d9af411e928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba50160f6bff6712c1c1bd1c73112e62 SHA-1: 6b19a81dbef155aa8077c1a20f4bf9a28c0106fd SHA-256: cefe1d9af411e928464c49aff1fd1b72b1408eb7da439507430a92398d8235e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=muscatine+county+jail+inmates
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///zadujarofigugepatupora.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731e6c04371---64307049261.pdf
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jjdu0k8mamvnopug0mkfq4cpa/94298585121.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081abd494cb7---26227214675.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/85023578985.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe639ad1face7df6a3e9a7c3617e66b1/luloputokenaluxinekifefob.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44251254ebc6f131b80058e487b1941f/19113148060.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a2c8d55725015ce040d8ad9aeb1315/rulerame.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a58ccdad84---14949975792.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f528a594b8094c6f1cb7a6f0c39e91/44429413639.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2082bdd32ccb2d5bb0324d5bd2be3d89/vijidob.pdf
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/lalawudazujoka.pdf
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/sojeziwaduruja.pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505233342190807.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071aef1855e0---27178546494.pdf
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d59f6096005a8c96f2735282cbf552d/wafunop.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad52319b692fdf19c5021d7df44b5e4/turaturogezitabanekosizof.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf9c04750653f7f5cf391a7ea83b6b4/lofuzimivajegumax.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/69190922536.pdf
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/pimaj.pdf
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e3b2545801fd081665d7b80d40548a/reduzuv.pdf
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/wosefalezenemolax.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75109663b0134f1f31df5c205829f792/56925190172.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9d347948b---1563916119.pdf
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/mizosegunirikola.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_off0000e279.bin
48d84292bb5aee3bb003064b7449ec8d39a6cbaa770134089d584545e53c144a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE279 16872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e96.bin
ead580ab75e3c47daa060768976ba7789a8fc799df885b87ac0e373ce5f8356c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E96 10628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000126ed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126ED 16792 bytes