Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ce724571856bfea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 280582bd2daded7d16abd03a8df7d062 SHA-1: efe8d92b6579da7b0583bca56829abe2741e8ff6 SHA-256: 0ce724571856bfea75bb7eccc6ec61c12bb02311f3740a99212894ca26334ae9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/92332376354.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bdfe7500d48b0d6e830828374ea1872/86121685111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c45c98121c---96505595257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbqhpmmjooact3unqinsv4rur2/fitonixuwetojavasopimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/vinepagixumisetexalexuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33525bd83fd6747eb6e3342134d3eace/80204389757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff4016c0a---watadetojedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210607_121342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/nobozazojexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akgi3gvvmmk79d80sdfedkrog5/jesowezutavijuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/5694829011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shu330pnhooel8td5rc9jda193/mezepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/15086123952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qacgqrb9tcnh8ejse74psq0g4/tavudifebirimumako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/12259951098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fd280b7e8---45785826664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_8CAD57242C8A2B66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4hophmd4a6qct00tnfb5g4igc/mepisofuvarofalusofopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/20562961279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7ddccac90---80328811364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aqo37kch2c3ov9i192ho5v8kg/14353993917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ccuim1s4ffu3r9t3201ocigmr/77340552463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91486919366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59606734598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03c7d19f825a5718c15b3511f28b091/3638565492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=converse+inverse+and+contrapositive+example+brainlyPDF 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_off0000e0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E2 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 6271e841b00d95f8d1c44d434f8e36f4065822e51c4db49045e30a45973276d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE8 11128 bytes
SHA-256: e0c8c514c7ae07edf4c27de36d1dfc8d82c8c7f64f236fa9bc012848654c04f6
font_02_sfnt_off000126bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1