Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfe0edf0379d488e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 08:35:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fb5d02eaeecd9486f21b2eeda295dfcb SHA-1: 1a7669880ea325db9a99b312dabcc2286b36ff26 SHA-256: cfe0edf0379d488e24f192ab8b26c48009cca0c8e4560bdede947e15521ead99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coordinating+conjunctions+exercises+for+grade+8 PDF link annotation
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/fofozomifisajabubumewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/goruwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/zorodomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775184fd52e1ff8b67e57685165128b0/liburefofebirikigukowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/75356993018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/zitaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/60914889473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6b7e8234d---lolopabekavekivuzapuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2dffdbe64---67373683711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/sozotetefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf3a6afa07---jupujodirowesalitefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd99c0ad03b---41026957635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4b960514---93173658911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816e0da92be---nogozapeperuvuribaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/rurawisujosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjef3p2aurgp2m483pq4chb7aj/81271640558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/rageduzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/71133950661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/66567273091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hml7osgrchc426odrvnk9hf881/zutijitilurebutilipogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/758da677f7138dbf04f762122f746df9/6934821959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/wotawudupazomoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016ac4a90a37d6f6a93f5e5e08b35c1e/25928888795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880556a1681---58433892736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/46680410043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/bufajesadolorijekoposab.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_off0000f0b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B2 11176 bytes
SHA-256: d29e0c66b2fd90f3051033d249b9f52a079e3f1a427098b0534cb401a0d7d2d9
font_01_sfnt_off00010acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DE 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 66eb30a21a545143c24daf81b8c421c0fdef337ba5592f951a5789c14e00bcd4