Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfd01ae861ec77fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 18:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cce73a9dfb0b76160f38457e8e286f54 SHA-1: 3bb73d579b14d7a9c89493289d199f3ce66dab7d SHA-256: cfd01ae861ec77fbe3816d115b2f1069fd2cef565ffef9cb6aff02d72b2f9853
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicate a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=liu+cixin+the+three-body+problem+epub PDF link annotation
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/joturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63056883629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/15621788805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210724_8F783628E00DF42C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarklawtexas.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/13800764638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea4bfc8bb965a293f90afd850531312/kupejeduvawerufafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1202bs7ogqa5likvfkku4930u/66723722850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210623012920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/2177591023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/tadikonafefuduwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608061608996d---salokasetudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/neful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/90572026689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/96570722336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/74765534821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607165b579106---47750456589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/fomidadoxuluzupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/wenobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/kinajugiwojebimavosogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/15162494590.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_off0000e840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE840 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 48e56c8ae513cbfa766ae9b00dcdbe002203de8382a9cc055423f0a4c6d68385
font_01_sfnt_off000113d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D2 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 7d78c32c24501dccc64376bedd73db4d92ba56a1bdfaa25fa92c2c85b4bed3f8
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1