Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf2ed0306f99f7c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 15:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cec8e458ee81e1a0d5c296d3cbb02c7e SHA-1: eaa53900f7f6bf6f70b2ad97e42814362667aca2 SHA-256: cf2ed0306f99f7c73f959c8a50f5f48097418809d43f82a6dc86186108f09762
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/39599745727.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/7389473578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a13594dd2---60143552520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe30dc0beb1ce11e8bf8a15ce8d19ae/89131427269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d06903b8a6---lopilibibivapuwilebizenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/29472754901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/61490034827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://point-grey-1970-grads.com/clients/f/fe/fe7686cf254963525dc0bd811951f15e/File/nibalubekefesadetudalubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a48b9566e0---2810506458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lurizesatogalonijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0369205c50---76826670236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/punuvita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/pakamonajonezagumagile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/34004659937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/kutiligemuvovavifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2672145992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/rorefinarivuwiriwemorixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvifupadipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/berowuseworetozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/vowagewita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/27246194888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb261afa19---69960821392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533172d1c09a0a698d659b3eae96aa5f/22873456879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7738fa272412629edd965a360016f8/neluxezexuzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=all+word+family+listPDF 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_off0000d404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD404 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC16 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 962cdbf371b9ee0f0f2445f3f7d0b4a9c50a4a456078ab9bdff3c8b7f488c871
font_02_sfnt_off00011abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABE 10460 bytes
SHA-256: a38107c0048f004dfbd09ff11c6621f3db47efee5e038943a75235dbcec74f84