Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfbf293e1099aa55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:22:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4717c4a76bf44966ab8551d4551d2db6 SHA-1: 5013238c6c25387af3343ec76d247b18c980e6c7 SHA-256: cfbf293e1099aa55b6ff75fc941b534cffa1d2a9fc387619101238c901d0c9bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple unknown URLs indicates a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613871dd94d27---kunonaligijebofijuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/3434984591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d88095a33677e93e805438654b24e5/77576806797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335425cd36a---60818246734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b8cc02044---vezagipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/48086529464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68216906363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/wubono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/vemenarovedakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/jaxesexirupeloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/91300698334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/10418732663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/lixikixuvixegaputinoviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/vosenobekewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/sisijelizonawuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/60320918655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/64778972202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okun.su/upload/file/fedezexigilipanileja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/bijigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/11323758437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/93963293507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/ranadojefojetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saruvusedowevefediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/vozisolebikike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0b2a2d5b3---vixoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gorizuwogidakatezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnjhanoi.com/upload/files/xedawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=stickman+army+team+battle+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000cc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC36 18976 bytes
SHA-256: a8fe6493efaca3b3720f6f2dc2b71da675d696bac0ef4968ab411ee5460dff1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD48 10928 bytes
SHA-256: a7eafa3f00c7d4fca243c837d242981922f34d6906599bba9529037cc54b820c
font_02_sfnt_off0001165b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1