Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf0bc77610a8ac76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 126002a4d8e8e35c9ad98fc1b8261022 SHA-1: cfdeb68ab4015c89b181e734977f23ad74f0bf83 SHA-256: cf0bc77610a8ac76fd2ca632611f4bd53d2ab0625c54c5989a1a606aed450c1a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristics highlight the use of link farms and IP address literals in URIs. These elements suggest the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/sewoxipu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138373918ad9---6314032682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhodium.vn/uploads/news_file/pasulisunidetupiwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93254fb168ecfc7aab3a930069df0a01/jopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///98649715547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/6501_20210901062106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/xedilani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/kigadazuzafabilutolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/modebisuduxelaboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupuxaviwifijapepifiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55204485856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/niviwepememigobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/27948484820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87784654575.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021914138562615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthtecindia.com/userfiles/file/3702988125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49096597028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/nipidujukexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/79197636624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67362418310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4210b2c8e7043fa9e1c063b050c8104e/kivojabutepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/28117629054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/80968347793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe33eca9f2---ninevuzegekosabamuwesekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogekakunatafewaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=cannot+resolve+method+setcontentview+android+studioPDF 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_off0000cea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA6 19496 bytes
SHA-256: cd53cd1cff92eb6d468d7b373832542b024b928a4d72bc5cc73cbcf9789cb6e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001014e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014E 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 5437c1055b349d104fedeed60e7d501c48058d69205f720d65d0cb3ff7140641
font_02_sfnt_off00011a83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1