Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf3cf7b62c955167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7615629cf3f344e4c4ceaa7ad748ecf5 SHA-1: a8b4be72e67dede3b37a68c7e0497e47755edd81 SHA-256: cf3cf7b62c955167815e64ea4ec3fb41f94a51bf8d5c6dffb555dffa3278d6e8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://grossbuch.com/upload/file/moziwibufavijaleraxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogifenopelusekalopeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkpneu.cz/userfiles/file/tebakonapowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/ledudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/13543643385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/27405556716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurasevevijakikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concilianavarra.com/userfiles/files/tarufurerefumetosizufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/farudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgmftbqcmq3pr9j7n8jap3ine1/sunexawawafurevulevatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/10443761766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/zojupaburatosezuvigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448b1450663---9045704750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec6fe80e49---70502517619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa22b6f9fff10a1fc7570d8e946b2170/tesunatevimiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/tudadejobebujivofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lonuvenagirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/25912320801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63176958037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iiiemjobs.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/96922227544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/vosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijewakawatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engcaphone.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/33100353500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosujibatulodevusobinaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=saria%27s+song+12+hole+ocarinaPDF 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_off0000e87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87E 21832 bytes
SHA-256: bd13a94333a1639c7c6fdfec90a1c37090b17b4f3e0f1500beabd9d1adedad15
font_01_sfnt_off000121c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C0 10692 bytes
SHA-256: cc229e896eca58e6719b18194965aa30028417b10b098e0f6c0dd901aedf1b09
font_02_sfnt_off00013a42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1