Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf0e5117aab51c25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dace4b5bdba6e20ab7ff7c662212ab30 SHA-1: 5a7e6f25181197710a65602ed6379895dccc1c4c SHA-256: cf0e5117aab51c25e512c897e0b551eddf208ab68ce5eb0bbe66ec04bf0c6bec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, with numerous distinct hosts and UTM term redirectors, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic findings strongly point to a malicious link-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dsbeg77bj0cekvc8qpetddahp/14350943787.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/turazenewazikuzide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/57054992817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efb7e6e726---wigorisasofitakodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4uaol6g35k5ape9umh0fd23gov/mijileneluzufodezuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paresawufediwegamikebopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/77538858111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210705180740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3e9fbfb6a---52310564453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/nowutelevijawugikatatipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7939acd42---tipudusotalubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/pijugosafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92284061229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1600c97b8805efdbfa312dbab93d2752/26792545868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/35156104775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/56249606835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/85506934943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67efa28835242ab9ee91db93d558eb7c/90985064922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69f7d3d411---jovadinujabuvusoxivike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/lopunajenifuzabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0223fd450b1746c2775e765c2a1d32cc/fomopabogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41aghh20gsca2tq48p0eq5ans5/wadakijetifuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/87686208547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cda1eb6be---47454828682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202106301334106348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+riddles+with+answersPDF 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_off0000f85e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85E 17156 bytes
SHA-256: d450548491e2c21e4ce8f0535cff1f775be051148bb159c9b97c8b4ab38b6bcf
font_01_sfnt_off0001250e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1250E 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 85f553ff46320542d8c93ae6287217e4a3fbae84b77d3a9389b6949f97eda2bf
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1