Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf144321deeffb90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 33d6cf90f9afdd0b0719634862e39fda SHA-1: ce4ab88b0bc16f456140f4efaf11a258f37ed267 SHA-256: cf144321deeffb904c918ca31d7bce94bcd08c11b3ffef2878eac3932f8df66f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of external URIs and link farms are common tactics for distributing malware or conducting phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 5

  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+the+cursed+child+full+play+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/85189055375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/gazixodewipuranozimajobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1qoeolf74h6ee75igf39ro3s7/kipesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/99115042736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205052c9cf2bef09089a6f71a12e6464/vopogupevosurixumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/ziwuvunakodefifukavina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6a7cdca1fa2ab1bd8c0b97628ee03f/livubivipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a2339e002---70192950384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4gp6csv9kg6s2ks11dc3cun0/sotuzikexaseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/73303460249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tehpfal2ni2p42sbpcaoso8o1/56621633887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89a8eef019---vadedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c983d6e5f04---negevodefovijusoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/83329050133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/4322483972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/863029578191cd3213997bc4b5436e1a/risekebejorefabigisisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab940e0bf1e---zimorolejepugapolakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ab15c192a0272e6949ed3f17e2ce9d/sapuxilowoxuxukusukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5dfea76698---xisudiriwutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf226e56758---49885784450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.com/E/file/11254945724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5ebc0qc301m5chc07fsjb4q3/28410195493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c136d78bed5---33452328449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9547ea304a6308d104aff5257a1adf3d/12225788889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lt5if18uq85ssplk4u8u1meef/11655102790.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_off000104f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D07 17904 bytes
SHA-256: e47384b74b8b082fa970ed52c49618652d1df54f14e811d02687c0489d30936f
font_02_sfnt_off00014ba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BA6 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 1fcebc3505d1d8ed09c7f23ba0f273fd616acf0b70288341e5882c614e84d3db