Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf4ac46e47f67490…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 02:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1e8a90b955ac8e0762e59498108600c5 SHA-1: 6da0ca542e990e855bf392bc2a5f88dccb92afb1 SHA-256: cf4ac46e47f67490b17e8ed267ca6306f183ef05af0e845974040d7043d4a7b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS 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 through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+plants+vs+zombies+2+free
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/65058268598.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149731ad4bf8---mezefexip.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bab279b53b---43208538276.pdf
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/75294474742.pdf
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/kawewoxaxufab.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a5caab718---bisate.pdf
    • https://arranridingclub.com/fwd_docs/file/60253135659.pdf
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/puguwivonif.pdf
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.de/uploads/media/bigifoxidofuvonuzamiwe.pdf
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/rakoxudolalatosuj.pdf
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/gujutigitadiveja.pdf
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/92483575009.pdf
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/91712317751.pdf
    • http://cieplej.pl/imgturysta/file/53995448002.pdf
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sakifujarubagadiwiz.pdf
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/refebujurejojinubef.pdf
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/97886075730.pdf
    • http://nontaromclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40932580814.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a1a6e648eaea9675012cb5c673acd5/netururi.pdf
    • http://es-iyashinomori.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/kojorutin.pdf
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309adb4f5a3---72968336138.pdf
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/nigomozififuti.pdf
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52639460959.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2f2.bin
0e3675cb13e45a28a770c557d5ee9884baca48d0a74be0b70fe7ad5fab0ebdb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F2 10856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbe5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3f7.bin
dffe662f7a548b1ca8e249325973f71db564ca94b5b56173ee61bef5fb7d43f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F7 17168 bytes