Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf023a778b02e81a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 712181ebab8af8d40e5077324d2dd5b9 SHA-1: 42bc6273b019efdb6fc37251bda31a6429808bf6 SHA-256: cf023a778b02e81a552de86af9485d06d301de6dd3995455af200ce309e42498
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://eirai.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korumapozokuwuzoji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ef0938c22---71382526791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/woxoragesafofedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134605ce1d86---bizifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613247fbc7303---degego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_02_21_19_52_5955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25037645213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/56493266054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semolidedoguxenanuzokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/vexozabavubesepuresij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmyhome.com/img/files/32038124488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/34030149029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8708e1c4448d0e25823daf69bf78fa/4709171046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/vujamexomixasafomaregel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eea7454f7ddddaa9e278ef241254b37/gejenadimivibevusazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuzadubipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/58407055768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/1084fab6b19a64e5d55d3262ef50271f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98140922025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/42970707855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/72797063364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/teruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/91766217758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10843273995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/nolunikewarixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133966f9eb27---foresukafojamalefigegaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=apk+hotspot+shield+premiumPDF 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_off0000d900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD900 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF112 18864 bytes
SHA-256: bfa00d30556b1099592b90cca8add633f1107097340eb4b88d5d9b491d6ae159
font_02_sfnt_off0001223a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223A 10564 bytes
SHA-256: af2c2606f36a5853a5116a24ccd2d52a04da2bc8acab50059aa21270902bd2bc