Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf432f6430f1f593…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:48:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a58e1a3242ef7e7ba90e0addc0e37599 SHA-1: c83b43f4f92d805b8300fd60633fa79c2c659b7e SHA-256: cf432f6430f1f593491c9adb8459159112aec7c4509a60ea2975740e71bcd119
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a malicious link farm pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50820994319.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f5858c0de---48258729418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b6ab81c7fbfb9b3afb7bfcd23a4979/kepajelukibekiwoboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///vororanuker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/tiruzejizaketepifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumudewilepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13910327527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a1c6d3a189810c5cb90f141bd25cd5/51531499357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ciq3r0fl2spaiu8i07bm0o3la7/zibijepegafidifurukezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40fqm632n12v67d8rnr5p10tsf/kumejawazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/jesefutupogufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/gutagefapavapirisexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb47426d588---35498007859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/54447611203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rifozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fad051c6ac9fbcf365a4a9441024881f/jilewuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/novazakupezoxobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/pesazozorafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/muriturexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/21432961148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/pakowolomotevini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+text+editor+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f45c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45C 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0fcb90c5add88287b391b1258422c472ce7f410ce1249a61ded87953d3b10b
font_01_sfnt_off0001216a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216A 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 008af935102297d4d43c1a4df16fe6f29da6887f165d520ac651d0fb44aff702
font_02_sfnt_off000139a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1