Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf68c73e4c0cad0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 05:17:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f1cc12c0fa44e243f2db28a40c6eae98 SHA-1: 117c5ad09e85d6cc3ae2d834628b416fc4ff10f2 SHA-256: cf68c73e4c0cad0c3989fb78f3188d47fa90370579ff577e667e9ea425172b54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to external malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6d6d164e13a81d0731c13a823727bf/55870197259.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/ronat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/jowenurarevofosewobarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944bcfaf058---koroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/61558456154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8707c2a80f---fuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csgu5q876ubim6bsrlkig9i85n/kivasurojinivegojoxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/zumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/58270191396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/9442396124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nbgpbgrdncrm7pb64qeq2v5h5/84115950656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701bb17dad2---subijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/domiwitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/46489778716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/49473977051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4933f5e6ab0923ec24182836832e88dd/64619301911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4906af07798227c15d97286938754db6/savaganosapadidexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/69738507357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e5c36975943409dbc8481dcc5ecd22/muzomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bdeaj5rl9jj3l5ecr5ot6lshj/18113738806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/gepamarazedixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/wojizadeviberodonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8442451340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80e2b42a512396cbf20e7585242e593/55906276151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360b65bd35919080127125d398c3bf9c/65375742507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cuento+el+rat%C3%B3n+el+le%C3%B3n+y+la+espinaPDF 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_off0001193a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13151 10628 bytes
SHA-256: cb3c7884041917e4c658f0db6abb29145ed73b49f4c7988ba988cf6db9c71a26
font_02_sfnt_off00014994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14994 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9ba323df83d00044b9f69da086b7de32149ae04a515368a6d96d8864dfd70c