Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf1ec2d0ae3372f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:28:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 378bcfd46723883832e0a5e9d83f001e SHA-1: 9093740b023f8608424793c605b7d3e02fbabe47 SHA-256: cf1ec2d0ae3372f06bd4c9268b2307a9c7fdca20758c3791253913c245db6c15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised domains and a high ML score points to a coordinated malicious effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+shots+of+whiskey+can+kill+you PDF link annotation
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6ecea0363---57212176756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30fcbbb86a2f45edba45b9ae69a785af/novuzosugidepijuxoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ljkrcje5rs23nu6bdliim1mjl/gupokuxobenibivikiloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8cfc9b178---47081519767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfff7gqik9ilbjocso24fkedkl/digunixozubewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipuzowajidoraritebimoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/baramuwerivavodovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a790847a9df---rabebepugatibopuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/jolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076964e90c00---5158391878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulrpnlm8dcoig79dq6eovb58kb/xedidapelusined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b48014ce9392ffc39780d827ad6ead3/2929664423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e1733d26c---82890043829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607815bb03a1a---5238032075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/87960122946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/furabiwidevevedixuropuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f29851b801---17463062096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01e9fad4e1---24080665172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/35081029370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f53959de824af7b894dd3913f113fbae/mabuwuxotelolufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rorukowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608520abf1087---87110182545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2d4m2qbqeouc4v2241cq4voph/petunesigalenelaboder.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_off000112e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E6 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 31edb448a98c2f9070dd9a02dd96891f3e0150f6b626c8cf975d07a0bd20b5c6
font_01_sfnt_off00012bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14400 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 8e2f0ba80a98a846bc296defbeff7c7374af7da46c0a5c88d5f3f770b90f7216