Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfb0e89edf9930e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 57748b33d98106956488591f864fd3d7 SHA-1: e7a11e7a06980e4174273d4c089b45ed04dcdd49 SHA-256: cfb0e89edf9930e59a34eeb0a1059d1be2d5a7ce706728281d88092252ef3299
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to download files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing payload or malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple links to potentially malicious PDF files suggests a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/zerafaximobizizerinuloxeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7cc60e0c4---39650062119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5s285i124f3pmrkf4mec5ovg0/22250566341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098478419a9d---jirezunujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/48477857753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f16caa755efb87c3f491320a1b02497e/66615458317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/wivabonavixodarobuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ln4hd3qhn53j3b0uhnbqq60b/tuxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33561416709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/42680320603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/matijonovinese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fda3ed71e0---43905925379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/vugiviwalozazekemitiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607783c51bb34---zetadowelinowulizovepitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db86ad3ef65ad44e665061a81314527/jivewabanejukifuvozubemoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/58230442996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/48504247264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf2720bfc---87307910821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5079e5729---65222978596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/2789961580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnte88dvgfo221ut9ceic15nel/12902809775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/67785019613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d06906b6---99278210585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/fofisevewonudoxovovoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+move+emails+from+deleted+items+to+inbox+in+outlookPDF 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_off0000e688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE688 17500 bytes
SHA-256: a8440977cd06240b591049efe149f154521000c1c2154fa89a4fb39c0f58e0a1
font_01_sfnt_off00011425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11425 11092 bytes
SHA-256: a00ce7629f80ecdae18eaef0fee896110e97007ac1d6160df5b1b1d70a9c42cc
font_02_sfnt_off00012e03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1