Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf7d9e94d8b67204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 21:42:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 229eedaeeea2277c96650513609270bf SHA-1: c1e46ea7f83d1626f689d69143f01ef3ea900cba SHA-256: cf7d9e94d8b67204bab0731dae5d7578d23657e3cac8b81be747e8dd5480696d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content, as indicated by the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging it as malicious. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe49a97da1fcea073f74ca6fd3ac05b1/wemerone.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1332c19f3e---32572320507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab9615348703586d2970ea1e1c9b42fa/tetotorodikagijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/11180019133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/rivugarizosirimulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denofazurixavibirejozanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/10398942342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9041e8d24f---joxuboxiboxuvowuzamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zewerikabukuguguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/jolanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847e704e676---vogitimasimoxotibebixene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myafmc.com/clients/a/a5/a51d49d85de18111a3d718c63a5e5081/File/8892784756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e3489e927---bafelofenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f34c075466---41724383097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0rnkealtsh37ei6ppfkpkonkk/30439818635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c13a674a0988d611c75ab530d03f7bf/39096456812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc886fe37e46c3b3c3a58dce2d8757cb/dosukanaxemapabutoladidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53907308058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/gatunokodusirunadazowuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/rasodipuloxupesojazenaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/guvudamomuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab0f931dc---49472373836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/suvapofuwolekivuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/genokexezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/nuxadafawadikibonepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd42d04f14---xuvejekeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=javascript+class+constructor+examplePDF 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_off0000f107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF107 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 226d5a0feaffbcf9f7e8986f1f35111b9858c1bcb76258bb348470fb546ddb8a
font_01_sfnt_off000109e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E9 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 14ca2f9f774c8d4e4ce41b8e359b92513b0eafe9c7495259ece86916bf35e02c
font_02_sfnt_off0001380c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1380C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1