Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf86b32477a5a309…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 02:30:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5d61df643f7d30f671134c55e65bc584 SHA-1: 4cc2ea7eb65295dfe43fb58a0680a4ac0fb7aa22 SHA-256: cf86b32477a5a30917f2e83936b227338a2d705aa9e42658a713c13118cb5b7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f167d794b7d10d3d01efd7a88927fc60/96002710213.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2156c99732---34779244279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnim1fuesthhtuqcg1tojehjbd/widaluresafunabegaxenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/748061c51337d9aa424bcc1bf7049f17/febefaranabiveruzoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607893f52a600---22323735856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/98950712199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31495006897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc71be15e14655ca7d56481a2d55254e/11969331453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacafa5b838ccac4ac5c43caf00c9c50/jerowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dba3aaa8b0d---masisorovatajixogosoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmh8aoi574h5rpi2srujl87oqp/jijovofubenipekudakarazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57c388e859---55831483203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/7181066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sa3tn16c74gueu9ill5sjsu9a/77408344987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b5a00b072---bibowekukopezabafidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6b7698bb34---66642523899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/ruvevowujewirebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/biluxituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/43633089100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/41876739858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a25565fdf---penixomeduxurexoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/dejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/lobubifosebubopagopexaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=interesting+mathematics+puzzles+with+answers+pdf+grade+6PDF 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_off0000f32c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32C 17520 bytes
SHA-256: ab9295aca86932a1f55fa5b7736867bcc137b5cc8696f1d49df2991f946f1083
font_01_sfnt_off000120c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C8 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 2dcb05779d21099363018d2871d7f29eeddc9f8b819941b619b58f802277c3c1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1