Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfba69b2e00d5d3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 23ce062346d35876c1cf518470a224a0 SHA-1: 4f17a5150960ee981532c2470f7c3cfbc1f5c20c SHA-256: cfba69b2e00d5d3bacb1805dcfd42074d27249a11c7853ff9443dbbd25b5c42b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_SECURITY_BYPASS' indicates the document explicitly instructs the user to disable security software, a strong indicator of malicious intent. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+iii+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://gainliving.com/upload/editor/file/29844617550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvekupajufodalopiniganes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/20234614125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/37268801705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/62788220495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hybsch.it/upload/file/kavagepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11753986068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/48021153855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilot-market.ru/new/files/file/kudiwisujakajowapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/xibavinurewopugarasoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/45458442527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6830bd013---31448537503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/50380272492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/56844379653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812bd0062069bd9bd66b4c191bcaa462/pugasetijujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62886271685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bupujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61538621054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37315182126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/16717528572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/vojibakadapetukurozuramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/tuzubolarilomaxatulufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/pojilopugezexajaxerewates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/22755489003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsst0e6o4vapsphnp80coheq80/bulefizelebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141023da87c4---27086267459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/zuziw.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_off0000ed45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001055c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055C 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 7206b6e62eaf4ae7b821985938914239b714a2eebf76dcaa9bbd7a912ad77d71
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC5 19360 bytes
SHA-256: 5a7962ebe5c1c133dde26a1a28ee5abf32e5ee52beaebbaf03d32f338727a50b