Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00ce0ac95f293ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1281400e7e0868aeb6fac9d043763cee SHA-1: b66a6c47a4a0ebe735d149f305a278dc42feb59c SHA-256: 00ce0ac95f293ab0c8a2e91b96a6dc3be5c9ed74a8a531bb92bbeb721c61833b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' in one URL further support a campaign aimed at obscuring the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bb5bbd19---najiwewuse.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asfpibhvjuth0obaaaif6dm766/16438600710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34588326539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napatidoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymvii.com/admin/upload/files/91610601792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/93624000050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2a885c1361b5d50e4dafa5ec493b98/luwelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/ropozedixokezekadaluzoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/90233244338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ba00a315d---lomifetegomuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0ars2rj50114qgldfmabtvl73/vosabumegejitofixuzinoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/95204011434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095da4c29307---belafogiwotawoluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazduire-domeniu.com/UserFiles/file/13377501303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b64859373d---39818855456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/34801706560d4af7c2c6bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repairbase.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/images/file/fojijirojuporifidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs07nbmqjagnn51l9rm70kk453/72277770042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/tulefalokukeduziditab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/vorikaxugibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38705252459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d81f3b324827be85695d4c1277076f9/97082725976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/45626334026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7q1h66s3ep5ortufu5d7torf0/pafajosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae3dcd6d46---78511190402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=surah+al+hamd+pdfPDF 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_off0000d8e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E0 19020 bytes
SHA-256: adaf3a6208a4be1a46b25d51897596fd60fd96d691b01c39fa7250136a74dc22
font_01_sfnt_off00010a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A91 10224 bytes
SHA-256: c71154bdd00dd274a6c0882728ec3e4b4973ef1ea4087a258d9346e661d26850
font_02_sfnt_off00012171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12171 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1