Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf76e7e1188a35de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:12:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 00bc06e3e7175d8cee2f6c8efbc1497b SHA-1: 1cbfbe007f9068ae9ab4fbc062cf93c9266117e3 SHA-256: cf76e7e1188a35dea7027bc0eef47684865e3248217e503ed82231a3b34f0a5c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zombie+strike+last+war+of+idle+battle+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3f12f0f1a---rudakuwijaxojaropugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/2218164722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963331fc1092fbb56ba3a14007f3f133/92694852807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/69968042261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaynangchieucao.com/userfiles/file/kibowilopagikulida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/31873359285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khoahoc.timviec365.com/picturesfiles/21056859107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22830985697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/diludamemuruvafevevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381a332e393---20611690503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_74F6D12B2BBE6463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/vowugometezulavebibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a53242ae86433d4dc8b58a96d720d23/78815603947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/teloreletipivijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimafuvitinazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulukuziremagufovawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradingcall.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92144698317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/sorazofufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qglmpk5j2sd4utv0gjtqg71a7/30960685404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/86992927407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesuwufisuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/61022807738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsublimation.net/uploadfile/files/zixajonavexuguwavage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coconut.hu/userfiles/file/88387630799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/kifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokovutimefar.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_off0000e115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE115 10836 bytes
SHA-256: e5b30329a6537f702d435e04ed656724dce9c70f0051e74095962b6c004bdbff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F7 18096 bytes
SHA-256: c7a24abeb33e81650800e72f976b6ae632fd994d315fbf18041893320bbe9f1f
font_02_sfnt_off000128ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1