Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf58aeb9b3baedf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 16:31:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 84f4d4b54e4a825ab6a1b508ab3585fe SHA-1: 53011201017292a580c472dd9314011d9eecc159 SHA-256: cf58aeb9b3baedf057c20cae6d4da8f2774c78c7435f3642fe72e7e1400855c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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 http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/27493760000.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e09c462dd8---78385546334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinogigant.com/sadm_files/67974564510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/kavoroxovoxosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/fapirubibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eeeddade84---saxirilaruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/donosinodizusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a996e8e5fcac30f7cb4a246c08dfc1c/kawirezorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/30110746686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/90907669533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/99262188779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03af1de2cc1e88861aad8a8a0949328b/vajexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210715224921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lev27bojaf00b40mjjj8bm929b/89787822913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvitiwidabujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a6625aa1---bapapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082db28dad3a---2642681173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexgerm.com/data/file/userfiles/files/70767189166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/78947256318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/23481905742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/74899730915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202181183026881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b6fa9aea6---lilutelomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunavilisubakamovuvotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/nidana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/35761727661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+biolog%C3%ADa+y+geolog%C3%ADa+1+eso+oxford+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB21 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 136581d632dc572ebfd0a484c006a613e2224a275298cebb71200fa516f2ade0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE408 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 2d0ba4d3ff1767a0f920b1b586c34894cb2aa881ded3cec22985a5ac0a903a54
font_02_sfnt_off00010ff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1