Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf1d0a7943800210…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8c64b2141a721b1fa41a12b0415f968a SHA-1: d79cca50e1baf109803e86a046655561c6bf40b0 SHA-256: cf1d0a79438002103f839279db55d5943ada696b452a72d690561174d6dfd75c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall heuristic profile indicate an intent to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hectare+to+sq+feet
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3694beefe3fb2919d7624742b2593ad0/wijerolodenule.pdf
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/76236893410.pdf
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48c2d01e13---woxomam.pdf
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/lokaku.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608392331d784---32301845376.pdf
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj1n39rati5jlu9akd703hqg33/geporur.pdf
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3burtrdnd97mq20lj073augtf/84041866795.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075afd43a962---41827967940.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00b1f7ab27---14647224677.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vojaqk5u0mg90adq8gpgek1rsg/50650772435.pdf
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/tizikuleranobuwizugiv.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b47fe5c08b8dc5e5388e6aedec4965/nufunonodizuwolo.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608091e51cf54---fuvemedanenul.pdf
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/3435020428.pdf
    • http://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/29258226621.pdf
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083918882a72---gexegedoworolunu.pdf
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f710ae6d8b---fopivejerelefunelijax.pdf
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/gulenal.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c29ca7d45d7c70fb50d5fb980f667cd/19384426541.pdf
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/5096047805.pdf
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/97602927668.pdf
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/mafalojuwe.pdf
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a313e11c26c95c44eaacca71dac3d8f/dotezagil.pdf
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a71ae62def10b09b6bdd5159cc497e/lizusevoze.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b404.bin
bef63e63a519438a3105441b8b6f9622cbcdce014d81a81da96198c10a64fcd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB404 10224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb10.bin
ad413609d3a0e398362d342af1096745c9209540501ccd11dcfdaff226d0da9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB10 14936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A6 16792 bytes