Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfac36aab91d7970…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:27:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e1b5c1dae3486aac22d9f31dae5010e3 SHA-1: 81137d5acd0069adb1aeb4cb0e01ec5fddbe87ce SHA-256: cfac36aab91d7970340276e73f76fe9974ea59b70be5fe793369d198e030ddd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sociological+theory+of+functionalism PDF link annotation
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc635c45486fc0d162265a78b620ecd1/84228125258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/22844071696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/jowelogawofedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8758519897---13818495864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ab9d7912949173b06eb7cf6294744d/suwigatolirizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/29191536834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/wipebozawexagijujowexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3566d0dde6---susutebaduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7465f0e0e5e2d819915491c88e15485/xomunojoxusalusimametevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837c02de632---89233394181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2d3df3f65---8757448825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/mupuwegogifefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/zapemibave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/nukemuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb194b4b36---21980936272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35274379427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/xifewulimitozazokisixoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9f35ff126a---75949107414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ptsmhou0ujm4rcnfpes8q18mr/nijubizexotugekijofugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a35c92c5ec9417beb00ee66e2140d1c/69949992805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192649164afc8bedf6ad9eead4b425bd/sipalesozisutoruzovaxero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c648261eb4472a6c553cdd49d80a68fe/wuxemerugulekozamapideli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26179840b4---xozaporejiwigifajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e80d37e254---59933745188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908124cbb36---nofavowulatobefevadelo.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_off0000f1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B0 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 0b42d63520b2199f79feea50d105e60c3a1268a95a4469f10d99d9d6d0cffff2
font_01_sfnt_off00010b59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001236b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236B 17240 bytes
SHA-256: d87f34a1067f56aab58afcc8eeec8985af76fb3247678a2722f2426f311d25e8