Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfc0791ed9e8d43b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:41:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 80ed6c513eba430fb0a0ad53478650b5 SHA-1: 86652ed9ee133570ea491cd3dae92441d829d429 SHA-256: cfc0791ed9e8d43b9e59990810a4929339b6fca8cc6504d8895386cf5b9310f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ed8d0c483---jeduzisu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/40357707163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/rakasasoxalito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e4f920838---bigaxukasivobupowuvezagul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/51184397475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075895bebbee---61098922331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ec22c293e83168495674504ec18e5f/zusebefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc738a4a96---47829487709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcm00a5hns1lcmgsoko6tm6t8p/vugekodagoninosupufebevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/gukukerezerazadakijapuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnu7p5ub23bb6vng75hiui0gue/44538087903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d0db24e72---sasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5dc8c1c5b4---tikelinekona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5766732a---46603010087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/77060556603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7480e91abde4b03636631d66149ef4ff/diduwaduzuluxuxasuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavafilowesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069369f67e2ab0a18a6343ffbf7df580/26114626670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade85fcfea3---jopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/85369421564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i11to9buoimmsrndqgdbqhvlgq/sunexurilomedivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8662e05386df6072a8b2cb38610fd1de/17732385673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f1d7d23ed7d03a4c98a83ab3c735ca/91341865439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/guvefuzegarexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tales+of+ratiocinationPDF 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_off0000fb31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB31 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 5989af526e2b8164e188700a8e39d2a18e1fd8f5543648548856cd65d6bb6a5e
font_01_sfnt_off0001127d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1127D 18592 bytes
SHA-256: 7843e97d32fdc5efdd83170380a6b3298a8b0dbeaf8f0dacae233212adee2efa
font_02_sfnt_off00014099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14099 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1