Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfbdedf266098f3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9e8c6ed36dc5d7ff9dd8e8a253e80790 SHA-1: cd702b18696c9e612ef653d6335a5879c4a2907d SHA-256: cfbdedf266098f3a6656e04e499c5066de096d30d2a16f7d2a99694d36efd788
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 websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and links to compromised CMS uploads further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/1715600029.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lumieye.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/14807348342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22854925592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/78151985710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31628784371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/91873959443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/37645467897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d90c251f199c22af596cb591d1a2a349/waramipufotutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/surewomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42205348212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613c9e52d998c---59332453793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/70725501253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614376e08f72a---11605197959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/tulizodebidobilewanegesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/87420541165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/55861458136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/39212542232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/guwubujinonofugevagewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/32627828902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f35d241e5b---nuxelavizujavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulukufunovikedekowezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/23347631098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/gikefitukejitofakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148a57b6dfa0---kaxuvunejazesawiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcbeautytrainingschool.com/userfiles/file/7923989429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=precalculus+mathematics+for+calculus+7th+edition+solutions+manual+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_off0000bb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB6E 11036 bytes
SHA-256: e1a6f0309ab0d94367f9d374b9a8b978697ed1d316f77d7a203d3ff2bb327f29
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F7 16664 bytes
SHA-256: 431edc250734600ad5bf52b6a5faf69e42aa4cc1a62ad89f0c4e04f0cf93a2e3
font_02_sfnt_off00010086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10086 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1