Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfb135759acc3c51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:21:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c236f5393bb0da9a008d82d146cd5ccb SHA-1: c2216b73817140ad52474ed767d1b7012abd53d3 SHA-256: cfb135759acc3c51f826a04e867c9e6e696765910e632b0d9ffb38f333edcf9f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attack pattern involving external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db8dd21f04f---35939468016.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/82928163358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/lipalekagikubuzoxobawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75.com/clients/46937/File/vudosiwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1f01dc5ff0f9b58549ed342d91503a/rekekuvutowefezadelumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/3420951832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361e7718c8edf9d50599e6babdc9cc0d/66623130870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083df467e092---76665118429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/rusemowasikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/rogemodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082975cd1c6f---58233843397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/nabibajuvunafufotijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/kukejujadukinogijazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/gipitanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac6230fe70---19579641211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f47bb42e8a8ec23e29f0916b7de6656/zoxoxujidonolupavuduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a916232443c---dekegiregumemuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752644cfe5c---kaxomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fov1j0c0ds0pngk85uvcs0avh/38264249038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc027e3281---xuvuxaxirizedaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554ddd58d5f1a864422806530da3b36c/60493553829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8260e18ccc---37474691684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773bca14qu9aotd2hs6rk653d7/3917168212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3cd75d540---31369363929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/26783642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=one+sided+t+testPDF 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_off0000ed82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10594 16516 bytes
SHA-256: cef9a17be758ac9dead817318966c2fd1fded846bb20708fa58fd6f2739328ec
font_02_sfnt_off00013071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13071 9836 bytes
SHA-256: 0363ec907587d9ddd57ec6f6f22d135d1f5cd31e69c744e24f863ce1c9c8e76e