Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf0cc89ba6ca844d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4e292eff1733ef05452d1f3a0a83071d SHA-1: 07dc7c7677b71b539efe9912c4c6ab00fc165e8e SHA-256: cf0cc89ba6ca844d18083810353705cd4eaabe27e09e752b0687cc105c243229
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The PDF structure and link farm indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afeffaa71c3---80011449344.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h7m85p4lehql67n5ta53hddn4/varixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/notegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a814faac692cdd4a0cb30638f776d1b/jiwanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/pigiwegotemotorimovibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d18c5183ce---6826279085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b590cdc4d---geledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989a499412f---rusuxukibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087189d45d3d---85808780243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2b2b697709397c0fbc1ba61dca25da/fupugopuduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10a2777b2c3b876e8836cf65223ae47/movexagesezuronoripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/75049636881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/71851402291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb2385a77b---97819223109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840ded60a0c---28478693111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c4b10ceab07d1a45bd2a37ccad2eb0/78535191043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/43638331071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9ffc74a3e25d6a89263a9bc236f07d/21259350479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a491a2b41---bejadatutagumawofaxirodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa4a8e76ab---73088497906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0h85i4tfs52a2gbs96q13u54/laxali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f31e40333---52962382781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60060660741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/94558193992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maclashoes.it/file/tupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=shadow+fight+3+rpgPDF 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_off0000ed78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED78 10660 bytes
SHA-256: c97a146f900a639a63ca7ddbe208d8c21f027304aa448de94492bd97ee5c6001
font_01_sfnt_off000105e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF8 29552 bytes
SHA-256: 022ec3db15630a665bf5c40e3c7ac401796c3d696570446bdb59b069ea092622