Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf66efd0bd786665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 07:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 896150ea25f89207cc8ac6e83407350a SHA-1: 3d48d5e45476ee60ebe0d8ba66475cf0ddf55b23 SHA-256: cf66efd0bd7866653f184769ea989db17f7c0c30df2cbeec34c7020bcff6693b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests it may be used to trick users into downloading password-protected archives, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=examen+de+geografia+4+grado+bloque+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e0f22b74---kamosovoxakoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristalensi.com/public/File/59301335921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/feratogoduvafasivelamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08bf183bf97c7eb4b96c63d5d86d2ff6/69443347886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/makomamitokedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/lesumaredenoxumoganevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789000e7732---55437181621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/norifazizuvapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48en2p8fdaualv2fl70k7mdagk/19447019216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49012223077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/13513642606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/89709620481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/gapasilazideburiduneluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84c843eaf068bfadf92dd9b1f68a052/96529667543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/64952820978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/99041875434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775868f1d852d8beb974193a412decb5/solexalaluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/xidugewasuniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xexakuxosalevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886ea21f67d---21925617828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/59318955823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/10008820936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/54813804591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74892566171299ed9bb83933b9877529/xivujozejetuleg.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_off0000c036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC036 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 7a690abe949641db10735457f2d98411701b615ef42a009e3451764ab679423e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d98a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f19c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19C 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 92ae36785581496bf0c71114a597fe46c67da137d4447d1216088a60d02c592c