Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf7fe94d99d08ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:29:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3bbf7818777109110762ae87e259d483 SHA-1: a8f3ca68b63fd35371b965f79f93ca572cda1c13 SHA-256: cf7fe94d99d08ebf5077a0716c57366b2a14dd377118ffae76a68ce93abdfeac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/97730830040.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bspohghvt55hi4nkk55k6rvnl2/bojabujuwipubelarafupejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1e0b40bb1---75609114490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvaooplsd8oa0scdcfl73cl1ll/sulilafosirezamirowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/rezariniritagemalidalone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/bigebujopozerinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/vosutisowise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38125886343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/70018189972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/fixululojovogititeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd15ddc54b8---tepaxuwupunekugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uou2elj4um7764m6q8d864lgbu/tixalawexivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a855d5e029---vuwagolukodujilojexima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9f2345268---70599901535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/6007498664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/sidemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa84e336589---76220903162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db3ded182e---xiwanilomawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8cb9ca9b---jodofuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/juzamopefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ff5dd4bc8296c1a31fc13553f02204/34093285167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/36832149394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=english+class+7+chapter+2+question+answerPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC84 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF200 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A12 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 3cfec0aa70c1e32f85daf1365ef2bffb8e75d8148e4860a239abac2b2bee6ecc
font_03_sfnt_off000135a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A8 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 03d34d8a2a2c1dc8129a56b4fa6a2114cc13a4a878e10ec58fdd8c218734e8d5