Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf11089e298832cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 856b652cb3f94a3dbc5630ab0e50f58b SHA-1: 2d1d5de364d3c1ff37b6278d47a1ac3216c0e634 SHA-256: cf11089e298832cd4c45a570e1f9a1471a2fea8bb88600aa373b3b4f7d45637b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and IP address literals further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thin+layer+chromatography+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jf2a7sestq6pc8f0o1tlbb7f1/gopodisanuxinedonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/xijeborikopidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/57520677413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/17046413291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/50705406868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908c117ab938b4781eed2e3429710f36/fefajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99d1b225b5---towotalijamaxegofiduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t1nmqvnmls41njn8i9867iaj5/65621248056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b296cc68b83---voforepituzokaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/mowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/19085667948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/44119704184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e0375c9af380b8c44d298d8d7a6ffd/bizama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608102bcb7da4---69653408953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79db9efb35---92062799034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a9fbe79ef---9371764343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/22071867079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2ce94c995---bulabifejunasejirom.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdfomqlr1s0s8e555jup3btu1c/88843687112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkp32mh8717sa099bohha2kfs3/rujobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b6d36638f---49925713468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f646ed6d5f---vukadonulofavewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af592660b38---difitidotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f768d609129391e139f3373802ba2e5/72477813279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF498 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010caf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAF 11144 bytes
SHA-256: cf1e9fc6c5440169dc580dc3f726d72110a09d33f9269d31b210b5b2eb58815d
font_02_sfnt_off0001263d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263D 17544 bytes
SHA-256: c3b0579055e9f62c734019c166fa17ca834de6e82e6ed5af2c688e50e6f66998