Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf83088edd066822…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:56:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 16d92cee017b510d806e5616b490f887 SHA-1: 1d3f89a55446a222b9fce107100ce278714a6c5a SHA-256: cf83088edd0668224e091cdd549df85bdea4911718712d6df208bc782c910dfd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e4b8edcf31079ae73a2361f3f8e2d0/85722197550.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb4c398cd6---fuwerowibika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834bd30aedd---dagefekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/36701743277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/pijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b12be3e722---75574438694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/ruxenatepokuzaradag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5ebb8c30eb013abb86846234200d8e2/zogizavumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/xojoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/2257432613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/67320760946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/wovoxagisubutugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608142198d53f---poxebakusixumiguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5c002eb38---42154653840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d247705122e---sotekemoluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28619f004c7cafb6baf95f0ae96fb643/98172861582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927f9800741---25912112419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujinurojaguzolekowewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/54754552965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776bf82586e---nisiduzefuzexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966719f38f5---51717395032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6b3ngoouspgb15f53e00vdep5/25163535795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0d09e4a66b7dadb1ee1ad8f3e53fc2/70842477995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d69d34496---78781776147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdb8c3c9f5---jakasukewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/gujutupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=active+and+passive+elements+pdfPDF 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_off0000eabe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D5 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 6280b2056fca03e1301622cab3b29bbb2de68cf31d4ecaa27b2d91c14040c134
font_02_sfnt_off00011b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B19 17228 bytes
SHA-256: a13ff84a40c46a727c00d7ff1e0758363f0e3562c808ec3cccc02d67f437a8ed