Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf34a661afc25323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d2ec53f91e93ca7694a22c2febd1accc SHA-1: bd329070bf1daea96062cc38e17f791b14864224 SHA-256: cf34a661afc2532380de05c4abe9820af5df21f26d139a1853499bf5916d58ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f827e97df2c644266701d40ff00c08c/dajazataxeperoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/namoxobave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/femegikijonefifepisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/nudigovokixisomifileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d9s8742ou8of11m3rf227g6b6/zazawijowaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a632038dc12ff2b2cd5821b3bfc0490/jipewelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47700765878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/87027555176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873f1cadceb---6841968437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55087522531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/38995825476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boduvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutepiwalikojizobudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898p80k551e7vm1cnar7jg5ed2/motuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-forum.cn/upload/files/23433419693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe78e471ae798f422db5f28b85647e7/4634858447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8432405a7341c795180841f2c702c44a/80011973714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb0051e5e4---78333525656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/72890331751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namodakifivarirogimodexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/zuzezusegawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents/files/fupavegobifaxudixara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0eb03f66e---37728826505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95675722d97faa1f45e875312c7dba2b/16503663103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/nonutefepomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+group+multiple+pdf+files+into+one+macPDF 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_off0000c874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC874 11140 bytes
SHA-256: f050c6572acf8c9c8ae9a6945d3889ea270b14207c549e3ec58a2b9e2c3d0133
font_01_sfnt_off0000e24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5D 16632 bytes
SHA-256: d0b119e7cdf1a834cfd0d2c5e1766e8992807f9105b01c5424afba1823b00f9a