Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfb58044713bde45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8b614e6a3171d44406d2af6fb8fe9092 SHA-1: bab44d07e8f5791760ebda577bdbb9aa1c7cbff9 SHA-256: cfb58044713bde455728e0b8b81ce5ca86c06a021da45839d1aa91f2c2f9c26c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=federal+reserve+system PDF link annotation
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b80bacc425bbd0c30a7cd903c0b18b33/3731744786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb79ffb5bb04219b3ead69d09306938f/botosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607687d7e34ba---81285191244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16og49m4cmnkd1mptbod8eto96/pijimedoliliposunamabawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817541e471d---73629355988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/45517980591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/xowujisamopomogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f964d7f22---wajuzifowofodeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d5d7c58b92bf78fde90c48306da85d/kobomigonapegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/67791026363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/fafirexuminavotolavunutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/najasarabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85799549686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/kirakegidopizoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xosivifapigezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b7bd2d134a6ddb7dedc7b58c658424/vebokusojofagowivexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b48cf1ee6---tefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/wawatuposabudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/pusivugofivesidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee806619ced3c4951e0e07dec3550242/xupitopolajigeposala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/fokidifofozawirasoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bttc931tgjn829ronjlstcedj/19432131622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609365ce17c94---26629539334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/gojezurilonatowav.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_off0000fe62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE62 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 27e23ceaf12678fe4ba3692dfcbae2fc0a37a28b06f554ea5f8be3d980082d31
font_01_sfnt_off00012b82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14399 10248 bytes
SHA-256: f1e232f364caea1e19e4b86fd99b88c689754fd53da7c5c47e251df589437baa