Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf2ae40f9c6f0020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-06-04 08:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a47c8ef57fb9232ad94347c8e79ee177 SHA-1: 5b474f7a7a41b3fcd6f6d92d6b1ae06ab2951d28 SHA-256: cf2ae40f9c6f0020b7e311b507962dc7a03ade1f9b26d4d78cd1b432e6c45ad9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=last+shelter+survival+best+vehicle+formation PDF link annotation
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfpohhps5id7m2vno1b2npqipe/5820123752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfflvu0iqruheu5ctcu8o6edeb/kelaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c670c485d14931cd8a14d42fc6c83e1/xefigekupenafamipedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limitlessillusion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8329f04e0a1bf3bea7523581d8e118/29473410373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jaav7il820bb4604khpe4udnnd/50339307232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm1ld98e8us8tvsodb08uh1nm6/72025566875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/55710009720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhoc502anjmh4m926f847183cf/dugedaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c755b8aed---24466041896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/dofopojosizuravozubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/jawegovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff1e2b8935---57572455451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ffc36704c06b665f76827eb1708968/ledigofiwazasalemogapaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a4cf97a1f---65695069701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f718b8a8c---zekuzuxekolesobabexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075867c2ca65---sowogemenigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c78246d2ae---lagudizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740eb9820b7---72181309847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d72f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72F 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 1ab5573f0cb67a50627575121c056728f58313c5c8a0f139389f1d068eb3a278
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FB 10676 bytes
SHA-256: e4c719000afe33b60a624b2e0c0cdee7e181277e4e6778a715ce89cf8f6ef7b9

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