Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfa80c0a1b7aa96c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 45027f68a66da3d9300ea34c0e00f947 SHA-1: 6b23e5ec26f9b42acb56b95369e002da1d79c8d8 SHA-256: cfa80c0a1b7aa96c0f0d28a32fbace65fdacf7b9967d757828c74f69682ba8dd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or raw IP addresses, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8545

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn1lk5e71g0r02skddamo76hdg/34823326070.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748f7dede76---timelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210814/1858279847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/98280347333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/19213760087.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/vasamibobemizojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/85009852828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/20720978601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/63632998263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78mks101tju3q5htuj7dakg5e2/ropowewoposora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/97012216562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a33496c7b2b74fca1fb5d92eecef2f0/91289668684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/tejanivobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/647680478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikuninimutogoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/5443400791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105250544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/3287034981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608053ea15396---pizudidekobelavowavutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5d72c4042---kevowajujibuluxunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/sasazivuzojisewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6a2a4836a---dilolafuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/fevubaxuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/23954222517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e48045878---vosirafokubibuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/23191250974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=a+royal+romance+full+movie+onlinePDF 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_off0001a3ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001bbbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BBBF 20196 bytes
SHA-256: 4e710b27d8c36aa9be4a6561631847e0c140656731e31456db350b79d9fbf232
font_02_sfnt_off0001ef8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EF8C 10492 bytes
SHA-256: bb14a1bd0bc78b402d966e4f334958bfaf4d6e68a266436ed1691848bec23ebd