Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf657fddecfd949a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dc2cfcf645cf55e6c932401a9d696e67 SHA-1: b4cb20993c6f4da286b69c14d287387012efdf54 SHA-256: cf657fddecfd949ab234ae83772af7f5a8cc84255f24bd231f424503eacfc219
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solarmovie+after+we+collided PDF link annotation
    • http://27derajat.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/norunetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triatlonshop.cz/userfiles/file/93478986053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/84173292835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thomsonindia.com/userfiles/files/84861044930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcec172dad---mefesotopawuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/32845781042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zukalekovokubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techlan.pl/files/file/jagikuzagifesezekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1631087642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395849bc64b---minesitosoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/60409593780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/75308071697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/69796863758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26584060209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/26542833251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnc-ar.ro/files/file/64174741728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/viwisavusedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzunlarpeynir.com/dursun/upload/files/57148645258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/zolokakemukopodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/48442240230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325a5833413---83577507300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/67657899142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed913cf5e1---68994489824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1630796307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/8965143444.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_off0000ed33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED33 19188 bytes
SHA-256: 24f90a0cb94d6cd97c11d6156414a852ad93a755e23132e82ecafbad01ae293b
font_01_sfnt_off00011f4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4B 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 78a4a3facf4de1d5d9a6f97b781bb303e96ce6e128fa93158c8a90fe21f83e1b
font_02_sfnt_off00013791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13791 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1