Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf8fd44f4f35d136…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-06-03 20:45:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d3255086184ee2ce5e90c7e012ccf0b3 SHA-1: 70f55e4a2fff9324412c1470c1e62f0f7be7dfd0 SHA-256: cf8fd44f4f35d1363fd0479755435b28f02fcdbb8e07e31b5633f61974d25ce8
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2lifr1gr0pd9s282c4tq4qr3k/22297679275.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/kepawalugurimusepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210518053115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210520141701_809359529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2895c3a95---66596844261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9foijudnj9a443ue5e173v0ned/bemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea22cd1a166de6575cc4ffd2ca817f18/56589067581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c58513641b1bb65ce2a5328f4f2f822/56668662481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/wutujurudinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c773fe7399---68318372816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/rovumevilivowotepafubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4psng5561q6rete8dhse9u1717/52364011667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e0441b2f655e355ac854a50c53c4ac/zowobojamexuzokexarinivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/debipupepuparorewavalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/zurekisewasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/157d8ad8641691b51d796bd128e7dcc9/jokaraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be6fc105e3ed2f1f600801e6d62cb1c/toleganenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+indian+video+chat+app+with+strangersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8F 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 2d82b0b280d4ff24f5a64a6be3d4554f5a73c921d9912e70b22a3ee32c483f3f
font_01_sfnt_off00010064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10064 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 17cf48f764591326c6864383542046f54fb685179a0aa635b2bccab08a71d2b9