Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf260b40a143512a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 027eecb8e65c644370f87a16da9726c7 SHA-1: 6647cbdc2f3fbbabee8bc0efad3507a33b824849 SHA-256: cf260b40a143512a304fecec7e11fe205a6ed1a589ba2c351cb9abec427acff9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to further obfuscate the malicious intent or initiate a download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://12tiga.com/contents/files/vojorijanugapefuferugex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130768904cfb---54551797771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/6395612470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/71778426099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/69070908069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5dce79780---22160625997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4687682e58fd583dcd63b1182db058c6/kidimofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/vekokowizilepozojeredekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f18660e4fa---93930881928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagegator.scorchmark.com/stagegator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6533900966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/buvofelogaribetijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nathulaldasptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77228774325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/wutoxizavavimaliwadomuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/29704435226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/papoxibivumosusokogudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofactory-jin.com/js/upload/files/luvowiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylatoprak.com/userfiles/file/48223000014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/faromakavagoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=utopia+thomas+moore+pdfPDF 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_off0000e5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5AF 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e0510d6aae16f08abcaa5f2d52f0e7c309426397d4d3b2ec22bf1cdfb78e12cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFC 18548 bytes
SHA-256: 20500384ade60eed3ec2b69c3d48b1db3f522aeb7981733aac7fa6f440ef67c7
font_02_sfnt_off00012e34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1