Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf25f9ef65f7070d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:58:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f1e9b744eb00c68f7be829193973f848 SHA-1: 46485ae4471155019a2930fb37927fa956536d92 SHA-256: cf25f9ef65f7070d8e5760d01a0c1afe9fbe3f7a8bb5ca4645bfe5b8fe8086a3
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document's structure and embedded links indicate an attempt to lure users into downloading further malicious payloads or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=root+switch+tv+box PDF link annotation
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/87215433392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/54140249638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613109e5338b1---kovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.com/userfiles/file/62214000951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d5263b81ff71ca3b4ba21260ba93d4/63324786129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/jaxelixofepazari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/vedobikilolujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/36710995615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/12922611555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316fb86b8d9---82785995633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613487a08d14a---lobedasutufaribudujibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17235236487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/mewubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/73420361276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/29352741752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/90487895993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zukajibuderejuduwizema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/nolanazupixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b6306630360533cdcbd62772fdb2f34/9338248925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36510047808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613771d660c64---12529053674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/76840639042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11856714192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prevodi-plovdiv.com/userfiles/file/betan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/36101350277.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_off0000ecd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD5 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 0a27b4e6eeab0ec5072c927d39bfa1752f094080937d8d1b2b15c413648d6989
font_01_sfnt_off00010403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10403 20100 bytes
SHA-256: 28c80a970fd34e6eed1e47e2de24e903e4ff13534d75b26fa219cdbfa7813b61
font_02_sfnt_off000138e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1