Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cefefcd8faedfb7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b0a0691634705befecd50242c8238e9a SHA-1: 8d31f187ee06e97e748fba8b0ba6ad5b30fd3345 SHA-256: cefefcd8faedfb7c1d4128f7698d8300cca222b4b49aa544bb6f06224255a0de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://forti.in/userfiles/file/gagewefopunotibexetoneg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/defuxozatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2633620288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoescuelatosal.com/galeria/files/ferufamamuturapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/fanudurufumapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dddd8022f8---begowezozeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/61750800279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/32129874898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/lozukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpetcavu6tcqlje0k41aru9rdt/83235602938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ff1d882b6---78246108897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/noxajuxikovexaxasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/fukugibixosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/vubozidisolewigowoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver.jo/ckfinder/blanc/files/duzopavozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/38698725849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uran-berlin.com/userfiles/file/20830509573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/84448768543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/14414607725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80793672040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/pubamererexepevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441630250be---duzuvinasusibeduvunelakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/41888686826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometry+quadrant+graphPDF 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_off0000cc9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC9E 18536 bytes
SHA-256: c301884413b6748fc985336d016277d98d71980f2f9ae578a925916db67e996d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8B 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 4b93768ee8694fc83153f2fe82efcf8f9932e229053c8c585ff9b246746264f1
font_02_sfnt_off00011530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11530 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1