Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfa2a5c7a490b870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-07 07:06:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 96b18c514525ad3b4b438aa92339a361 SHA-1: 19edd9a94fac6fd28ac1d5658e37aeed66d8c2b0 SHA-256: cfa2a5c7a490b870fbcbd4fac4700d8a55953bd235a7093fbbe8ee510cb66315
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection names imply a phishing or trojan distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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 http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f825e6357fc---nipelorokori.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kosikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4298e5f8825aa15fc8e05d8aa0cbc26e/jojovafuwabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitycare.com/FCK-UserFiles/files/27413927549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6f942bd19---60234296053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6797b742---47296629344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/mesejilifunawawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/zemumosujabipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/detexigudojuluxobusola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/61566681252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/zujojenikixenikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/62618630389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skk.com.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82999865237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de9toehdfq495g80dftnp3b6e/8751179330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12213014645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/89371231068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17c067c990e1dadda7d2ba8aa8f2055a/furetobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f169967b9f---78008633666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/ximexetulaferusalatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/novemamofonevozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/gobojomikapitinazupitake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2936423f8---59668258469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/13758846961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/58614355332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28977026815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/wepazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+make+rice+pudding+with+sweetened+condensed+milkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eec7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC7 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed9e120cc949a22f0c1124a27bca6e709bae7678396ef02a18df8c4ed446ea6
font_01_sfnt_off00011c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C25 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 5533a36026d55a7047e45ccdb184e1f7a31e04f5cced7c39fa537df677a7cb4f
font_02_sfnt_off00013635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13635 2088 bytes
SHA-256: 1649263070fbbef60204070de7418475faa76f32e66ac0948d6c38b905fd52c2
font_03_sfnt_off00013f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1