Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf5f1061788f2aef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:33:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8022a3099eb6586858cbef09f63ae67b SHA-1: 691cc1d4386d8a8ba4589fc709611c86e526918f SHA-256: cf5f1061788f2aefe73f32942e8dacb3a45fbf9e11e3f0aaeb6201aa55c273c4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the exploitation of vulnerabilities or the execution of further malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fb+messenger+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/29352750630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repairbase.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/images/file/fojijirojuporifidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9cfe2f76c---ditud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff4ca649a5---fonijabaxoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210905183324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com/files/59419739550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/61328655424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/7895513462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/49488062795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f97eabd4a---suxipusifaduwovejirudibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27d3dc96a1a9d7d85ac80a2cb27b3018/fagunaseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210901145016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352f55aaab0---50858291059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b57bm11hdllfs00sttsgtvg0u/borivixabomukalekogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sagizipujexakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/83781677182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db5974ac2c10cfdcb6379ff17f6b6c65/58344717184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserinnsbruck.com/static/26972256833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613729d425823---vavuvavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weldingportal.it/userfiles/file/43259138506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodnest.info/tctt/sites/aaa/file/voluvemojodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/devularepetirewofamizapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equimat-cheval.fr/file/majolowapabojete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/gazelonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnamairlinescorp.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97138386189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b5d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF0 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce8655bf773df9916553ad6ab6575f896f8b75f5324182d598bcba88d523222
font_02_sfnt_off0000e61d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE61D 19716 bytes
SHA-256: 901d1b4b2aa1fee443203c316247e85a58eacc16d58c19319d09c7e7870970a6