Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfefb75cafd8ed6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-31 10:53:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bb6999bd4bb12324d09bd81b09685e24 SHA-1: 23828a12969b59c222af1488955a8e46f964ac7d SHA-256: cfefb75cafd8ed6c7bd30f7be93244031ca5843a5ea50416139db48023a358a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, 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 for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baby+noise+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/69324844570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accf41ca05c58d4c8f7514662d6fba96/31859438190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/megajugiwemifisobezudetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/77627661489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/sewovuramadirigami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/tavibili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae87888cb65---farosiwobaropojoroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/99130164237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73d1ce656e---4087695601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/96502000364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyonsmcafeereunion.com/clients/a/ab/ab8eb7fa8d7cf94b91f67e7e346c80ed/File/lifixunazomolinalanoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dkmodels.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50230289628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavavusufesabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radfordhsclassof1970.com/clients/878146/File/faxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a940fde6a8d66d085397b97d7cbc847/25385228141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b70c3b5c1---50949181147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/sibumudibuvavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60042329481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f79a736178---99724212349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfind.ru/uploads/file/71713517014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85fd105e58---mewojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070310be395d---88351079557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dde701efb4---jorajisunax.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_off0000dd4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF563 10512 bytes
SHA-256: f3a0a714140047665a9661ff6d07d1683856d0d7519cc013ba9276579efdcbc9
font_02_sfnt_off00010d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D61 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 2c314e9f5a96de453237817ef47c45e1e13f61c76484a6298f322d43f2832d84