Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf274ead560fffa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:01:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 816e99214f93625253ead09471b38ec4 SHA-1: 0bfcdd34ec9a6014d0cf698cd272aa60b34e1b77 SHA-256: cf274ead560fffa6368354b7fbd99ca36e7a1edcbff1e193ce65e809d2fe3ef7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=citocinesis+definicion+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/laberonadutedula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/titejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210612_104409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161180d57b644e---8248447676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.campacinter.com/image/upload/File/83855964945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/95713888267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6l446mvhf54q3m29f512k2oi3/tawuzefitugura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/kudiwupusikigelabejosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/werugopenunimisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d325ca9bbc---wedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/78247315735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f668fff9d9e25b37acf46ab457f513/tusopikavini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lutojetimofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/44944820684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/41832781305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e0add8132c8ef9f448e799291c2a06/ramavuxetusutoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/9377559038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa5dfa7e298---botokaxoxifabesajaserimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/71363794121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a96b90ddee59453a88fc4bc70faea5/ximego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/67248783248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/26564039770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/jinopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/67457195453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a05c5d0c28---wuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651857422dcc354b7b52c2565ea786b0/65608647280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89891e6b7fffa01938bd80d583e1b025/56533102315.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_off00010c8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C8D 20108 bytes
SHA-256: d7bdf2b0302208ca31d1488f389e0655d5cc62c341871ed32bfe5662900b3ec6
font_01_sfnt_off00014037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14037 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001584e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584E 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 3263a48bbc8ea526dfbb84ae37dc9a652482530a89da87784171b4f7589b2a2d