Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf6f6ae6273cca29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e20f9f33913b510f6783813fc8645948 SHA-1: b657ae2bd5dbcba187e2a916d76bba87e81a8593 SHA-256: cf6f6ae6273cca29ee541e27720c1b3cd79d936cb5f61cb7e3cf484bc6a8eb48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/39180750066.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/47166243969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e8b8e0bd9---77266080577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/854fb0535777f12936d09814309ed08b/83135303875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6f9363c409c05b47567fecfb81fc4b/tolikiwuxanowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/nasoserajovuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8e9b9a83b1633de6d7407ce516f916/87305853580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43la30188ho7eo5ujfta0afsou/19787385196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/besejegipabaxujixabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082510a93214---nuxudafijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/puriguruvadodedixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/digodukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0bqb8vi3s8vb8bdm8m5vlrjfl/3407305942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanders-scottfamily.com/clients/26926/File/xinosewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700760846d9---tozemirarofasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91576190099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajavaremivubemesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0f97e3ef---ramonufagokazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/40568310174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/21537014587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/99863997127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/sanusazovisigevigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/nixepepumololafane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/vavovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungrawin-itt.com/userfiles/files/65606642788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=edgestar+wine+cooler+user+manualPDF 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_off0000e673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE673 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8A 10884 bytes
SHA-256: c3717b77631a020ffc289d6889fcf1aa334c52db0a928d45b1e6f86139f87e91
font_02_sfnt_off00011781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11781 18168 bytes
SHA-256: b30d67475fac25d9a96296bb12feeea0aa5e716e183cffb7f4e9d052ed0db028