Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfac77f5d2c650c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fc424155516ca3b50948d22602404272 SHA-1: f83db7820c59f4c3bfcf79aebe28269300714fd6 SHA-256: cfac77f5d2c650c9af9be5019166b99ea06f6b797ab190721eb34d6c025f1b64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to a malicious payload. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a7d4911708c53cdbe3c49dc81d5f1a1/11110568980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://immobiliareincentro.it/allegati/file/xakepokuzuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612854a0ccdfd---80412616447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e63277bed8b3a8f4359386a66e88480/12570945713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/nujukakenejawena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791853293a92d766a6503fee007ba7f5/nalezufusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue544l2a42k2qffs0knil7vum3/zawesilekotevoribanixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab4873024a1a18d0d8c674181a606b12/68129990631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b5e450d53---52206227045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094069a6c33f---29426198261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49870283738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73486c2d5a---vewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/71881196585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/xikudifevunadupali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uflfftc6ep3jcsmu7pa8k29tvc/zodalovodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851fe70ee11---dafudizefaxomifigefilixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bova9qhpommhtfvalpr9d9g9ot/vigapanamalubowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13923defb4e9477e530537ef465f39bc/xejutibakakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/witejofosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/48253418806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/46960063783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34876999839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudobapibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/goxetiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=real+estate+development+finance+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA04 10792 bytes
SHA-256: a00e79964da745482ccadb041d88d0aba965668cf5ff73d57cab2ee5433467e9
font_01_sfnt_off000102e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E2 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 9eb253a6fedf895de31249731ff41d7c6c519fbb3c2ff0276ea20dfd6f9ae072
font_02_sfnt_off0001328e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1