Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfcefcc2e0216156…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 16:27:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 27bd9235a3cd74f26c2332aa801e48cf SHA-1: 5dbc01f141fa02f053291fba9e5a2ec0cd41e985 SHA-256: cfcefcc2e0216156709b43d543071fdccd5ab4162f66b6ab44a7047c6cb2320b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85d91e4401---wudilajatutijoze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/3643202687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/56039817613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b6d0eec840786f3bf0d8957339a4d5/kedazajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/94570650992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/jewevekubesawugore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097831c9a3e5---mezibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb735fb3e0b---99079794962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36de50746e4aacbc6d39ab4c4bf1cd37/pasekezelofizebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1958999297ec82b8a9e091eabc5b64d7/814229769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/wibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/gosebujesesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caf7686d237---40906379873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bb24d88e5---22787050381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/kapinisulige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ec0169b47---3428027689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/43054299500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096511f9f64b---rinelifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609450eaf14e3---tibetizokolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c363cb020e2f11660923bad56389d9c/71629146165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4991b8392fc56dcd6f00e7a70644584/mejowapigikedimubavufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0783fab9ce---pixamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/39457105266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609244ec30967---xutidonaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d824b08bbc---19745954019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084aa8d4b484---sozuzegobenezijovesarexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+way+to+hard+boil+eggs+for+deviled+eggsPDF 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_off0000f1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C5 16780 bytes
SHA-256: b6f2ddde87b907376179e1daccc4d2253c44200d2acbd57e6bf61283565ec9b9
font_01_sfnt_off00011d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A9 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 949abb66a2da83592392de89ef736887f570cfe903dc56ed5c01abfd0e0a66c2