Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf668737479dbde4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 05:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: caea234942aea097acad42cce3a3e516 SHA-1: ba179973369a5ec069d57d365a16309486154c32 SHA-256: cf668737479dbde4d37539f5b4a2f4dddeb62d7ff7fedc90f6d6ecd6d1840adf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this, as they likely host or redirect to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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.
  • 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 https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/748j2n0d55bpecilrq6i16t1jo/fiwemub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/newazikojejalodilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przystaneknida.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kamuxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/tenafetobili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/31443081143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750341dbb0cc6af8c0a293ceb8514c0c/guxefunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/kotimenaritilojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3954a34d14---2657519698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/xitobavoxizokuxanupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc903126fa2---21573383479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16101125de1add---gelexamijadawite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210706182256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd2777682a---fadutexatupaguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sehqrnk02u9eot14ds04foqfsq/68411324578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b9862e62b---xananar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8170e4ad7d---61126226391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/8144095306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499d18cfb4f5d705c4b238a788eefa38/pebexejolapisegajavubuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105020824244476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a29105389---rurunizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834ee85e6b---digav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/dimolujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/maribazipalaxarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/jabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=class+9+political+science+book+in+hindi+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_off0000e286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE286 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9D 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 1195d3012a30e43200186f2c7e900a2032ed8fbb287944d74fae92d3b4d862ac
font_02_sfnt_off0001140f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140F 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 83f6985749721799b2c6ebf97084cd0cc6b6e9f7650c76850424ec5a6117518f