Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf9ef3c5e41de072…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:09:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0c2e38d170fd361b472315de9f3a2a61 SHA-1: e5a65342cb498b1e7dfb5de42cc875a3269057ab SHA-256: cf9ef3c5e41de07251a6b006ae06ddeb31762f73108718e3e3ede6337c15b47f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to exploiting users through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+lord%27s+prayer+in+hebrew+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22fb1b899a---37149179604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/68686160544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4eg5t249thsps69omj7hfgi0j/jorirosuwekekadorojetese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/fesolatefowerig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc0ghkm3685tlrqj54at5dgli/84212767697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d957c7f22---zatuwukakufisigodatipivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41796848827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a4221b55b190cfc46e86f3a858c254/71407403428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce37d8d9216b5c89d2cf09f88b77d49/82194466931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087529caf53e---46577744886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b0b4a5947ca365f9b67b7c150d11b75/fidivofobipibiwasebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/95720839031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d8a47471470aef6cf88f67574e1a40/21978422853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099dbbc7d97e---24125274776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/2266603289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/63779275472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074641fcfe28---zuvijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2291d47e2a---tukulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/vinebixakeral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kudonavularasafizewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/3993426239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/83674533097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce657b7329---19976407369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmic.ru/sadm_files/ratunufisaxeboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/3991725967.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_off000112be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BE 17448 bytes
SHA-256: e3316dded5155955c387fb7c35eb3b58947606df5822e74a568b1debdbb7c994
font_01_sfnt_off00013fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FCA 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 9b0a75468e17a9bab62495c23eb88ab9ea2f4d8bf1f9a07c869a529f2f257ae3
font_02_sfnt_off00015899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15899 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1