Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf8e14145a47ef4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:30:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e421d2eb6892d729be19abb2f05d5d45 SHA-1: 42ca966f4411565d287040d72194209de17a670e SHA-256: cf8e14145a47ef4f8e0b49d9d21c037df6eb17a6f98ef3dc0b15cf1f4285f6bd
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically using a 'Download Button' heuristic and a 'Browser Install Lure'. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a dropper or redirector for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+anonymox+for+firefox+android PDF link annotation
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/lipozabepunizoxozure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27053937160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a576d35f4---34654152534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/79295395558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katanuzobujopowobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72431646160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/81400015071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goang-hann.com/uploads/files/202109041737037668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leresto-niort.fr/images/userfiles/files/xorazazozegekipugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/wapani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c13919673---31262983977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/36613139456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b16750632b---55375535775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/35267312179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/69307861922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyo-g.net/userfiles/file/26732323889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/163062261126ff7927a79610bf6be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396567415b0---25110999850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sejarubos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd449e2660dab47635fd674215e605e/safewafetujovolawerutuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091215343418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210906/file/xirexosakanovomutizuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/vufopubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/29877774585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/jisopifogatonekisoduxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/30271769742.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_off0000e295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE295 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAC 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 115ff63cc6ce896faed42f10f8a11df9a267841d8dfae0297c6c3940d4a839c9
font_02_sfnt_off000112b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B6 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 30467de9d5fc7ca4baf60f389a39cf7e209873267a1962f40f9543c64049e166