Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf75091bd6eacc46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 12:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 46a4ab976421951401168ed078e43cda SHA-1: 4b766bd817c497e2b3bcbd930ed549b113173505 SHA-256: cf75091bd6eacc46469f195f727e86a56fdbd3bf34fdd87f10607ca0a68214dc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF_URI and EMBEDDED_URL heuristics further supports this, indicating the document's primary function is to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sql+injection+attacks+and+defence+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860532ebaff---79901107874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jcpcdesign.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210630144321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9849ce4f7b06ef7a425bed0d5e328e/95135729163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/kivutowigibosozifudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb39b8b93f2---saxukanarodarere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982d5e90b6c---miwodavofifagira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/liwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/60095155820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20faf2853b062b17d48e83180ba7428e/85360665262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/74523577407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210829234737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/fosubegarelalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977dd9263da---97454713340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/50250507312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1574025632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b949a3a699a---jevunigelotuwejutetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b0f911734aa5f939a764ec9d12c17e0/22668488091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32e32576ea---18888004515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad95cc92e8c---dinojujikerovisefajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/2264837881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/najuxivaluvozota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunamumezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4504f1066b29576f7e220291a53b50a7/61806891846.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_off000116b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC4 19072 bytes
SHA-256: 9a220b0684a977a487ba2a92d2a3e437cfe82ec3a5d6f0e38402a02bf33b6c6b
font_02_sfnt_off0001610b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1610B 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 9caf3d768eaffbd0130482a384c85f9f143fd86d91daaf2f21fa4bee114dead8