Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf24b88f9adfaeb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

149.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 20:51:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8c205c06ebf0759e6bcf44a1d712c701 SHA-1: 807aca70b1bee17c294a90f1abb716827eae51a6 SHA-256: cf24b88f9adfaeb3430b90754319a607333857cc244d62ec106a4078be6c4f8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious content suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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 http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/96102937621.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dfc6e40aa09366cbdc422c8a3007dcf/73974379101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/46916940750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_70987FCFCACA21D1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dfbbd0355---vorabeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ovmn6tgb86112786gjppjem64/wadeluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///dofenino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oevlcaap592ot2tp8hl5pfapb1/pimobivasarozuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd396488b5---nosowixedunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-6/20210606020917268718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd731b8991---sekuruwexixolixonize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/40612013947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8004ffdad32b1a0adbb08f7d8041860f/63568525300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db40a7c8613---wisawosenuweporuruseloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/69684319551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c0vbnicj3dp1rbffc3q12ijq3/wegovudexomiponinotuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a72c3263f3---saruradarofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/kanapujupobisonimiwosoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/nedelogaxegawokukibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj8rh1v4nr4dooa1haml48eu0u/13969509633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenadong.com/contents//files/samisijavukeneradito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/zovenonuwimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f434407e5faad28b54d4828d9941038/boroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e433c5483f4---35350667917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c3c2cfee98f4280d510c5b8eec85425/monuxazevuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/73331748031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=nature+resorts+in+coorgPDF 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_off0001e889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E889 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 72f60f0b2e82788d36da87ac78488f94e43c8eae852d1f0a486b23514e28884d
font_01_sfnt_off0002005e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2005E 18056 bytes
SHA-256: b175ba326c0ee91a8785c6f78392f0e2689c659817d57c0315195dbd4907e5f7
font_02_sfnt_off00022fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22FD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1